pain

Researchers developed a new pill with promising applications for treating pain due to gastrointestinal disorders.

Rodent studies and clinical trials increasingly demonstrate the soothing effects of green light, and now, researchers are revealing the underlying neural mechanisms.

In rheumatoid arthritis, damaged joints contain fibroblasts that prompt nerve cell growth, potentially causing pain even in the absence of inflammation.

Researchers harness pharmacogenomics to understand why individual patients react differently to opioids for pain relief. 

Pain research has traditionally relied on animal models. Theodore Price studies human tissues to better understand pain disorders across age and sex.

Using a gene therapy approach, researchers relieved pain behaviors in mice and tested the approach in human cells.

Researchers identified a peptide that selectively blocks pain signaling in sensory neurons and packaged it into a viral-based gene therapy in a step towards treating chronic pain without the risk for addiction.

Inducing the expression of antioxidant genes offers hope for alleviating severe facial discomfort in patients with a chronic pain condition.

Isaac Chiu delves into the intricate interplay between neurons, immune cells, and microbes to understand how pain and infection occur.

Emily Mevers investigates the compounds produced by millipedes that may inspire the medicines of the future.