While this group of colorful neurons was grown in a dish from stem cells, in the body neurons like this are responsible for sensing pain. There is a specialized subset of sensory neurons called ...

Researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have discovered clues as to how our bodies turn sensations such as ...

Cell signaling went in both directions: Immune cells acted on nociceptors and vice versa ... endogenous opioids"—opioids made within the body—"but it was unexpected that there was something ...

When people discuss their experiences of getting tattoos, sustaining sports injuries or giving birth, a question often comes ...