In a new study published in Engineering, researchers led by Xinxia Cai, Zhaojie Xu, and Yirong Wu explore the latest progress ...

For the first time, scientists have generated a functional neural pathway for sensing pain in a dish. This could help unravel ...

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

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

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Researchers identified how a brain circuit involving dopamine and GLP-1 receptor impact palatability and hedonic eating.