Last month, I completed teaching a graduate course for the tenth time. After several years (in the early 1990’s) of thinking about launching a new alternate-year seminar course and then planning it, I began teaching PATH 480 in the fall of 1994. The original name of...
Currently, I am on vacation near the beach in South Carolina. Consequently, I have opted for a topic that is bit different than the majority of my monthly commentaries in that it focuses not on a recent original report but instead on a conceptual point made in a book...
By Ruslan Medzhitov, David S. Schneider, and Miguel P. Soares Science 24 February 2012: Vol. 335 no. 6071 pp. 936-941 DOI: 10.1126/science.1214935 (not open access) Abstract The immune system protects from infections primarily by detecting and eliminating the...