The Latest Breaking News from Harvard Medical School

A new study in mice shows that Krause corpuscles are specialized to respond to vibration and light touch, and are key to normal sexual behavior.

Machine learning can help with analysis of gliomas, most common brain tumor, and reduce time patients are in operating room

Four individuals were charged with federal crimes in June 2023 related to the “unlawful transport” across state lines of human remains taken from the Harvard Medical School morgue. This indictment was part of a larger effort by the Department of Justice to shut down a national network of people trafficking…

Federal prosecutors say that cadavers were stolen from the university’s morgue, then chopped up and sold

Six people were charged on June 14, 2023, with buying and selling human remains stolen from the Harvard Medical School morgue and from an Arkansas mortuary. The macabre story made national headlines, particularly the indictment of Cedric Lodge: a morgue manager at Harvard from 1995 until earlier this year.

Cedric Lodge allegedly allowed buyers to visit the morgue and decide which remains they wanted to buy, a federal prosecutor said.

Risk of bites increases by up to 11% on sunny or smoggy days, according to Harvard Medical School researchers.

The manager allegedly sold body parts on the black market, prompting a lawsuit for negligence and emotional distress.

The son of a woman whose body was donated to Harvard Medical School for research purposes has filed a class-action lawsuit on behalf of all families who believe their loved ones’ body parts were mishandled by the school’s former morgue manager

Brains, skin and more were taken from dissected portions of donated cadavers.

Reverred institution’s veteran morgue manager Cecil Lodge accused of stealing human remains and selling them online to black market collectors