As a kid, I celebrated the 4th of July by going to a grassy field, between a nursing home and jail, to watch the official fireworks set off along a nearby river. I grew up in New Hampshire, a state ...

A new type of vaccine developed by researchers at the University of Chicago's Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (PME) has shown in the lab setting that it can completely reverse autoimmune ...

The notion that the immune system exists only to protect the body from infection and disease is an idea increasingly outdated. A study published in September supports a new way of thinking: Its ...

A California medical software company has launched the first "inverse planning" system for helping cancer treatment specialists optimize the placement of radioactive seeds used in the brachytherapy ...