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Exploring how sex differences regulate dopamine responses could inform novel interventions to prevent or treat substance use disorders.

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Neuroscientists Dive into the Biology of Pain

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How Does the Placebo Effect Work?

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Targeting Protein Isoforms to Develop Safer Opioids

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Learning About Pain from a Master Manipulator

Back Pain Explained

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Meningitis Bacteria Trigger Headaches, Then Sneak Into the Brain

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Study Traces a Neural Circuit Behind Green Light–Mediated Pain Relief

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Immune Cells Imitating Neurons Cause Pain in Mice with Tumors

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Bull Ant Venom Evolved to Make Bites More Painful to Mammals

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Tiny Nerve-Cooling Implant Relieves Pain in Rats

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Mouse Immune Cells Destroy Nerves’ Coating, Causing Chronic Pain

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Do Invertebrates Have Emotions?

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Giannina Descalzi Studies the Factors Underlying Chronic Pain

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Early Inflammation Protects Against Chronic Pain, Study Finds

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Neurons Firing Together Generate Spontaneous Pain

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Mechanisms of Chili’s Heat, Menthol’s Cool Garner Nobel

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Morphine Tolerance Pathway Identified in Mice

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Low Frequency Electric Stimulation Can Treat Back Pain: Study

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Neuron-Released Protein Can Set Off Inflammation: Study

Mapping Neuronal Gene Expression to Understand Pain

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Penguins Are Among the World’s Slowest-Evolving Birds: Study

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Universe 25 Experiment

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Maternal Iron Deficiency Can Trigger Sex Reversal in Mouse Embryos

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An AI-Powered Scientist Proposes a Treatment for Blindness

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Taking Control of Cellular Contamination with PCR Testing

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Rare Disease Research Gets a Boost from Automated NGS Solutions

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June 2025, Issue 1

Nergal Networks: Where Friendship Meets Infection

A citizen science game explores how social choices and networks can influence how an illness moves through a population.

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Unraveling Complex Biology with Advanced Multiomics Technology

Unraveling Complex Biology with Five-Dimensional Multiomics

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Resurrecting Plant Defense Mechanisms to Avoid Crop Pathogens

Resurrecting Plant Defense Mechanisms to Avoid Crop Pathogens

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