It's taken more than a half-decade of dedicated work, but an HSCI team at Harvard and Boston Children's Hospital has succeeded in turning human skin cells into pain-sensing neurons. This pioneering work lead by Principal Faculty member Clifford Woolf, MD, PhD, co-leader of HSCI's Nervous System Diseases Program, should markedly improve the understanding and analysis of pain, as well as hasten the development of new, more effective drugs specifically targeting the neurons involved in both acute and inflammatory pain. And here's the rest of the story.
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