MeSH tree: A11.671.650
A light brush, a hot surface and an irritating itch all activate different sensory pathways, yet researchers have determined that, in mice, these otherwise distinct responses share a molecular helper. A team led by Bailong ...
People with endometriosis often report struggling for years to have their agonizing pelvic pain, severe period cramps and other life-impacting symptoms taken seriously by doctors. New research from The Jackson Laboratory ...
Oct 13, 2026
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Scientists have taken another important step toward restoring vision in people with certain inherited forms of blindness. In a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine, researchers at the University of Pittsburgh ...
Oct 7, 2026
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Chronic pain can continue long after an initial injury. When a nerve outside the brain and spinal cord (a peripheral nerve) is damaged and does not heal properly, it keeps sending constant pain signals. Over time, this nonstop ...
Oct 6, 2026
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Understanding and treating chronic neuropathic pain has remained challenging due to its complex nature. New research from the lab of Clifford Woolf, MB, BCh, Ph.D., at Boston Children's Hospital's FM Kirby Neurobiology Center ...
Oct 6, 2026
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Weill Cornell Medicine investigators have determined how a molecule within cells can help tune the eyes' sensitivity to light. The study identified the molecule's binding site on a protein in retinal cells, which should enable ...
Sep 24, 2026
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A new preclinical study led by investigators from Mass General Brigham offers a potential explanation for two longstanding questions in allergy: Why do allergies often emerge only after repeated exposure, and why do people ...
Sep 22, 2026
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An international team of researchers led by the University Hospital and University of Bonn, as well as the universities of Edinburgh, Basel and Pennsylvania, has identified a previously unrecognized form of inherited retinal ...
Sep 10, 2026
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In a breakthrough study, researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center discovered that psilocybin given before chemotherapy prevented the onset of nerve injury in preclinical models, even after repeated ...
Sep 3, 2026
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Everything you eat passes one checkpoint before it enters your body: taste. In a fraction of a second, it decides what gets swallowed and what gets rejected, a judgment call critical to survival. Now, for the first time, ...
Sep 3, 2026
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