A hidden immune stress switch may be driving chemotherapy nerve pain and scientists have found a way to turn it off.

Scientists created a model of the human pain pathway in a dish by connecting four separate brain organoids. The feat should help them understand sensory disorders like those affecting pain perception.

Human skin transmits sensory information as electrical pulses, or spikes, that encode signals related to pressure and pain. NRE-skin mimics this biological process by converting pressure ...

Harpreet Bhasin is a biology major with minors in Biotechnology and Public Health and he is a 2024-25 health care ethics intern at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University.

A battery-free wireless implant reduces bowel inflammation in rats by electrically stimulating a nerve to the spleen over 7 ...

With the aid of a 3D printer, researchers at Uppsala University have succeeded in creating a model that resembles human nerve tissue. The model, which can be cultured from the patient's own cells, ...

This article is based on a poster originally authored by Anna-Mari Kärkkäinen, Riikka Immonen, Leena Rauhala, Artem Shatillo, and Susanne Bäck. Animal models are critical in improving our ...

In a groundbreaking achievement, a team of Australian scientists has successfully grown the world’s first fully functioning lab-made human skin that comes with its own blood supply. This breakthrough, ...