A new study builds the case for ion channel proteins as contributors to pain.
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Pain Research in Animals: Why Do It, and What Can It Tell Us?
Jeffrey Mogil, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, discusses the rewards and challenges of studying pain in animals.
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2015 Research Highlights: Location, Location, Location: Delivering Drugs to the Right Spot for Pain Relief
X-ray imaging improves precision of drug delivery to reduce pain in pigs—could a similar approach help treat chronic pain in people?
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The Brain in Pain
Karen Davis, University of Toronto, Canada, discusses how various brain imaging techniques work, why pain researchers are interested in them in the first place, and what the techniques can—and can not—tell us about pain in the brain.
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2015 Research Highlights: Sex Differences in Mechanisms Underlying Pain
Different immune cells are crucial for pain in male versus female mice, an important finding with clinical implications for patients with chronic pain.