Harvard Medical School

Findings pave way for research that focuses on detection and prevention.

Candida albicans is a double agent: In most of us, it lives peacefully, but for people whose immune systems are compromised by HIV or other severe illnesses, it is frequently deadly. Now a new study from Johns Hopkins and Harvard Medical School shows how targeting a specific fungal component might turn the fungus from a lion back into a kitten.

Pushing the boundaries of regenerative medicine, Howard Green helped save two young burn victims in the summer of '83.