The dorsal root ganglion – or DRG – is a cluster of nerve cells found along the spine that control ... address symptoms by disrupting pain signals before they can reach the spinal cord or brain. Four ...

Researchers have recreated the human ascending sensory pathway in a lab dish, using organoids that model the key brain and ...

Scientists develop lab-grown model of the human sensory pathway to investigate how pain signals are transmitted to the brain.

Four tiny 3D organs connected themselves in a lab dish, forming a replica of the human pain pathway, in a new study. The discovery allows scientists to better understand chronic pain and how pain ...

Immediate use for the newly developed assembloids could include studying neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism.

A Q&A between Shawn Kwatra, M.D., professor and chair of dermatology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, and Managed Healthcare Executive about new discoveries in chronic itch, how ...

Stanford Medicine investigators have replicated, in a lab dish, one of humans' most prominent nervous pathways for sensing ...

From a pinprick to a warm breeze, every sensation you perceive begins its journey along this ascending sensory pathway. For the first time, scientists have recreated the entire human nervous system’s ...

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Scientists have identified a previously unknown type of neural stem cell (pNSC) that exists outside the brain and spinal cord ...

In mice that selectively lack this isoform, SCPs initially populate spinal nerves, but their number ... to give rise to neurons in dorsal root sensory ganglia and glia (2), or glia, autonomic ...