Neuroscientists at Stanford University have grown a tiny, two-centimeter-long ‘sausage’ made of human cells that may hold answers to one of medicine’s most persistent mysteries: how pain moves through ...

"I try to hide them, I try to trick myself and convince myself I'm not feeling those particular emotions whether it's nerves, whether I'm injured; pain. I just try to trick myself that I don't ...

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.

JON HAMILTON, BYLINE: Pain signals often start on the ... HAMILTON: To test their creation, Pasca's team expose the nerve endings on one organoid to the chemical that makes chili peppers painfully ...