MeSH tree: A11.671.650.915
After nine months in the womb, humans enter a world filled with texture and shape. We must then quickly learn to recognize and respond to textures and objects in the outside world, beginning with sensations like the soft ...
Sep 24, 2025
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For athletes across all sports, few experiences are as agonizing as being forced to leave competition with a sudden muscle cramp. These painful, uncontrolled spasms—formally known as exercise-associated muscle cramps—have ...
Sep 9, 2025
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Scientists at the Jules Stein Eye Institute at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA have discovered that certain retinal cells can rewire themselves when vision begins to deteriorate in retinitis pigmentosa, a genetic ...
Jul 7, 2025
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On April 8, 2024, a once-in-a-lifetime total solar eclipse kept the eyes of millions of Quebecers riveted on the sky. But the experience left at least two among them—a 34-year-old man and a 17-year-old woman—with permanent ...
Jun 4, 2025
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Researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have discovered clues as to how our bodies turn sensations such as heat and touch into signals sent to the brain—and how these signals can be altered by inflammation ...
Apr 23, 2025
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Monash University scientists have developed a new (preclinical) method to distinguish between chronic pain subtypes, such as fibromyalgia and peripheral neuropathy.
Apr 7, 2025
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In vertebrate retinas, specialized photoreceptors responsible for color vision (cone cells) arrange themselves in patterns known as the "cone mosaic." Researchers at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) ...
Mar 25, 2025
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In the second world war, the physician Henry Beecher observed that some of his soldier patients, despite being injured on the battlefield, required no strong painkillers to manage their pain. In some cases, the injury was ...
Feb 10, 2025
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Researchers have developed a therapy to treat Stargardt disease, the most common form of inherited macular degeneration, which often leads to vision loss. Their study shows promising results using a precise technique for ...
Jan 10, 2025
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Ludwig van Beethoven began to lose his hearing at age 28 and was deaf by age 44. While the cause of his hearing loss remains a topic of scientific debate and ongoing revision, one thing is clear: Despite his hearing loss, ...
Dec 18, 2024
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