Stanford Medicine investigators have replicated, in a lab dish, one of humans’ most prominent nervous pathways for sensing pain. This nerve circuit transmits sensations from the body’s skin to the brain. Once further processed in the brain, these signals will translate into our subjective experience, including the uncomfortable feeling of pain.
The advance promises to accelerate what has been slow progress in understanding how pain signals are processed in humans and how best to alleviate…
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