Skin shields our bodies from the world’s dangers, but sometimes, with a nick or a bump, that barrier is breached. That’s when pain- and itch-sensing nociceptor neurons jump to action, transmitting ...

Nervous system development is orchestrated by transcription factors acting in sequence and in networks. The effectors that actually execute the steps leading to early specification or later phenotypic ...

Asthma sufferers regularly experience coughing, wheezing, chest tightness, and shortness of breath. It is a disease that targets the airways of the lung, and affects almost 1 in 10 people. The lung ...

When we feel pain in response to harmful stimuli it is the result of messages sent from pain sensors in the periphery of the body to the brain. These pain sensors – or nociceptors – often lie beneath ...

An electronic material that mimics nociceptors has been developed, capable of adjusting pain sensitivity to prevent the transmission of excessive pain to the human body. KAIST announced on the 15th ...

Research suggests that males and females differ in their experience of pain, but up until now, no one knew why. In a recent study published in BRAIN, University of Arizona Health Sciences researchers ...

A new study reveals the structural mechanisms of TRPM3 activation by heat and ligands, providing insights for the development ...

There is a largely arbitrary transition between ‘acute’ and ‘chronic’ pain, with temporal cut-offs after which point acute pain becomes chronic pain. Thus, an understanding of the cellular mechanisms ...