That’s gene editing. On paper, it is merely the rearrangement of letters. However, the road to editing genes in hopes of a therapeutic benefit is difficult to travel. Additionally, researchers want ...

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Nobody likes to feel pain, but it’s something every person will experience at some point in their life. But why is that? I am a neuroscientist, and my job is to research why and how people feel pain ...

Pain and itch are distinct sensations arousing evasion and compulsive desire for scratching, respectively. It’s unclear whether they could invoke different neural networks in the brain. Here, we use ...

Nociceptors are receptors that detect injurious stimuli and are necessary to convey such information from the periphery to the central nervous system. Crustaceans, such as shore crabs, are widely used ...

Yes, when someone pulls your hair – if you have enough hair that someone can pull it – it hurts. But the truth of why that is, and some of the how much and some of the how, has only recently become ...

In recent years, immune checkpoint therapy headed by programmed death receptor 1 (PD-1) and programmed death receptor-ligand 1 (PD-L1) has been proven to be safe and effective. However, clinical ...

Does a person's sex dictate how they respond to pain? To a certain degree, yes, but there's a lot scientists don't know. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Men and women experience pain differently, and until now, scientists didn’t know why. New research says it may be in part due to differences in male and female nerve cells. Pain-sensing nerve cells ...

A recent study by the University of Arizona Health Sciences has uncovered sex-specific differences in nociceptors, the nerve cells responsible for pain perception. The research reveals that males and ...