With a simple skin biopsy, researchers can learn about neurological conditions that may be associated with long COVID.

The next time your skin breaks out take a moment to tune in it may be your mind sending you a message Read ahead to know that ...

I was born with nerve endings on the outside of my skin. But I was born into a world where most successful people seem to have nerves internally or not at all.

Pinch yourself. If you feel pain, it's thanks to specialized nerve endings in the skin. And, in a surprising discovery, researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine demonstrated ...

Merkel cells -- which contact many sensory nerve endings in the skin -- are the initial sites for sensing touch, researchers have demonstrated. "Scientists have spent over a century trying to ...

Rensselaer, NY - (May 20, 2019) A study published today in PLOS ONE discovered the origin of severely disfiguring masses of cells, called neurofibromas, that gradually develop throughout the skin ...

Scientists have discovered a new organ in the skin that senses pain and could pave the way for more effective painkilling medication.. These pain-sensing cells form a “ mesh-like network ...

Bundles of nerves that relay information collected by touch sensors on the skin to the mouse's spinal chord and brain. Photo: EMBL/L. Castaldi Nerve endings (red) form "baskets" at the base of ...

Being taller may increase your risk of developing nerve, skin and some heart diseases, according to the largest study linking height and disease to date. The findings suggest that height could be ...

Pinch yourself. If you feel pain, it's thanks to specialized nerve endings in the skin. And, in a surprising discovery, researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine demonstrated ...