For many people, discomfort during a medical injection or a long tattoo session feels especially intense. According to new ...

All over the body are tiny sensors called nociceptors whose job is to spot potentially harmful stimuli and send warning ...

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 ...

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.

The abnormal tissues range from black blisters to red nodules and white-hot cysts. They grow throughout the pelvic cavity, latching on to the ovaries and peritoneum or infiltrating the bowel and ...

Insect venom may seem like an unlikely ally in the discovery of new human pain treatments, but the latest findings into the "unique" way a small ant causes us such agony is a big leap forward – and ...

When the hair rises on the back of your neck through a process called piloerection or something hurts so much your primitive response prompts you to run away, your body can completely block out pain ...

Stanford Medicine investigators have replicated, in a lab dish, one of the most prominent human nervous pathways for sensing pain. This nerve circuit transmits sensations from the body’s skin to the ...

Pain shapes survival, behavior, and welfare across species, yet many key questions about how pain starts, persists, and ...

Robots are about to experience the world in a way we never thought possible. Scientists in Hong Kong have developed a new electronic skin that allows humanoid machines not only to feel touch but also ...