In October 2026, a review titled 'Sex-specific mechanisms of chronic pain' was published in Science.It has long been known ...

For years, scientists thought they understood the job of a protein called TRPM2. It sits on the endings of sensory nerves and detects mild, non-painful warmth. That seemed to settle the question of ...

FREIBURG — Sometimes the stabbing pain was almost unbearable. For six years, Susanne Ganter has been tormented by nerve pain in her face. It is a pain that keeps returning. Every few seconds it shoots ...

A flexible electronic implant could one day make pain management a lot more chill. Created from materials that dissolve in the body, the device encircles nerves with an evaporative cooler. Implanted ...

New research has found that chronic pain begins in a certain group of neurons near the brainstem. In the face of something that threatens survival, these neurons can produce a molecule that acts as a ...

When Northeastern professor Yingzi Lin visited her father after his hip replacement, doctors asked him to measure his level of pain on the standard score of zero to 10. He couldn't do it, says Lin, ...

Scientists have identified the neural mechanisms through which sound blunts pain in mice. The findings could inform development of safer methods to treat pain. An international team of scientists has ...

Men and women experience pain differently, and until now, scientists didn’t know why. New research says it may be in part due to differences in male and female nerve cells. Pain-sensing nerve cells ...

For those who tend to be sensitive to even minor pain.In fact, that sensitivity might be a sign that your brain's 'pain brake' is weakening.The brain has a 'mechanism to turn down the volume of ...