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Specialized Neurons Play a Unique Role in Pain

Step Toward Designing New Approaches to Pain Therapy

Scientists have known more about neurons that detect temperature and touch than they have about those that underlie mechanical pain...until a recent NIH discovery.

Read more about this and other NIH advances in “Research Briefs.”

Nine New Stadtman Investigators Take on the Scientific World

BY LAURA STEPHENSON CARTER

Eagerly tackling challenging questions; using powerful scientific techniques; already making significant discoveries. Meet nine Earl Stadtman Investigators who are taking on the biomedical-research world: Constanza Camargo (NCI-DCEG); Tae-Wook Chun (NIAID); Nicholas Guydosh (NIDDK); Heather Hickman (NIAID); Ariel Levine (NINDS); Susan Moir (NIAID); Alexander Sodt (NICHD); Mia Sung (NIA); and Jinwei Zhang (NIDDK).

Daniel Reich, M.D., Ph.D.: Imagining Brain Imaging

BY ANNE DAVIDSON, NICHD

Humming along in the corner of Daniel Reich’s lab is a small scientific instrument that you’d expect to see at a tech company or in a design studio. It’s a 3-D printer busily making a customized cutting box that can hold a brain extracted at an autopsy so it can be sliced into thin sections. Reich, a neuroradiologist and senior investigator in the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, and his group developed the 3-D-printed cutting boxes as part of their research on multiple sclerosis.

Fibroid Link to Miscarriage Now in Doubt

BY KELLY LENOX, NIEHS

The largest study of its kind revealed that women with fibroid tumors are not at increased risk of miscarriage, contradicting common beliefs of women and health-care providers. The findings, reported in the June 7, 2017, issue of the American Journal of Epidemiology, may reduce unnecessary surgery for women with fibroids who plan to become pregnant. (Am J Epidemiol DOI:10.1093/aje/kwx062)