Fittingly, it was researchers with NASA who discovered the potential for medical light therapy to treat wounds, arthritis, glaucoma and other ailments in the 1990s. By the early 2000s, that LED ...

In his UChicago lab, Asst. Prof. Sam Light and his team study these microbes by getting rid of the very gas that gives us life: oxygen. In a specialized chamber, they create an oxygen-free environment ...