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Rachel Miller @rem7106.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Check out our latest preprint showing promise for treating joint pain @jointsintheworld.bsky.social

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

I have confirmation from several sources now that all T32s, many F30s and F31s, and most or all Center awards (P30, P50) have been terminated at Columbia. This is quite damaging to research and to individuals. This is pure terrorism and cannot be legal. But litigation will take time...

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Preliminary injunction in nationwide indirect cost rate case. This means that the judge found that the plaintiffs (AAMC, et al.) are likely to win on the merits when the ruling is finalized. www.statnews.com/2025/03/05/n...

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Judge issues preliminary injunction blocking Trump cuts to NIH research overhead payments

A federal judge issued a nationwide preliminary injunction blocking the Trump administration from slashing NIH payments for research overhead

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Denis Wirtz @deniswirtz.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Make use of our public database of Postdoc fellowships (private foundations, federal agencies). It's downloadable and free. We list 290 different fellowships and funding opportunities, along with description, deadline, amount, and eligibility criteria Download here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...

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Rachel Miller @rem7106.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Gift article link here: wapo.st/4h8aiZx

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Orthopaedic Research Society @orssociety.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

ORS encourages members to advocate for their research. On March 7, join the nationwide Stand Up for Science rally in Washington, DC, and state capitols. Share with colleagues and learn more at www.standupforscience2025.org. #scienceisforeveryone

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Anna Vlasits @annaintegrated.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Hey #Chicago! It's time to take a stand for #science. We are rallying on March 7 at noon at the Federal Plaza. Start making your signs! Info standupforscience2025.org/chicago-il/ RSVP (optional) www.eventbrite.com/e/stand-up-f... #standupforscience #scienceforall @standupforscience.bsky.social

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Chicago, IL

Location: Federal Plaza 211 S Clark St, Chicago, IL, United States Address: 211 S Clark St, Chicago, IL 60604 Time: 12-3 PM

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Jamie Collins @colljamie.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

#VERITY and #UNC are hosting a mini course on large datasets for rheumatic and musculoskeletal research this May! The course is free and will feature faculty from across the country. Registration is due 5/1! More info: bit.ly/4ifhHHk

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Anne-Marie Malfait @jointsintheworld.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

MONDAY MARCH 3TH- 3 PM CST- HYBRID SEMINAR- DO JOIN

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Katherine J. Wu @katherinejwu.com · 27/02/2025

I talked to NIH officials, current and former, about what's been happening inside the agency since the Trump administration shut down their grantmaking pipeline in January. Their stories showed just how willing our new leaders are to break the law: www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

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Inside the Collapse at NIH

Administration officials pressured NIH to avoid clear advice from the agency’s own lawyers to restart grant funding now.

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Confirmed (by many sources) news about 50 NIH Study Sections being allowed to announce meetings in the Federal Register. As usual, MANY more questions than answers... 1/2

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ALT: a muppet news anchor says " and now a muppet news flash " while holding a piece of paper

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 23/02/2025

Freezing out the NIH's funding means freezing out American innovation. Research into curing cancer, Alzheimer's, and Parkinson's all delayed. And ultimately it won't just cost us advancements in life-saving research, it will cost us lives.

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NIH funding cuts could have ‘devastating impact’ on medical advancements, Chicago researchers say

The National Institutes of Health under President Donald Trump announced this month that it was cutting payments covering overhead costs for research institutions that receive its grants.

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

TO NIHers OUT THERE It appears that folks from different ICs are getting quite different guidance about whether to respond to the "HR" email. I don't know how, but try to share information with one another to avoid some folks making themselves targets. You can reach me on Signal (jeremymberg.78)

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Ardem Patapoutian @ardemp.bskyverified.social · 22/02/2025

Check out the scientific journey behind the newest FDA-approved pain medication! 💊 Learn how NIH-funded research played a crucial role—both directly and indirectly—in bringing this breakthrough to life. 🧪

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NPR @npr.org · 22/02/2025

The National Institutes of Health had to stop considering new grant applications, delaying funding for research into diseases ranging from heart disease and cancer to Alzheimer's and allergies.

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NIH funding freeze stalls applications on $1.5 billion in medical research funds

The National Institutes of Health had to stop considering new grant applications, delaying funding for research into diseases ranging from heart disease and cancer to Alzheimer's and allergies.

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Ardem Patapoutian @ardemp.bskyverified.social · 22/02/2025

Dear California Representatives: Your leadership is more important than ever! We believe in your ability to make a difference—how can we support you in bringing more attention to this critical issue? @repscottpeters.bsky.social @levin.house.gov @schiff.senate.gov @padilla.senate.gov. Pls Repost!

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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Dear scientists at US universities: Trump/Musk continue to freeze your grants. NIH is not reviewing grants nor funding them in council. This is a backhanded, legal method to effectively stop NIH grants. See thread and linked article. Are we going to “keep our heads down” about this?

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

The press has a big role to play in shining light of what is going on...

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 20/02/2025

Breaking news: 57 percent of Americans say President Donald Trump has exceeded his authority since taking office for his second term, according to a new Washington Post-Ipsos poll.

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Many of Trump’s early actions are unpopular, Post-Ipsos poll finds

Reviews from Americans on President Donald Trump’s second term are mixed to negative, and 57 percent say he has exceeded his authority since taking office.

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Office of Mayor Michelle Wu 吳弭 @mayorwu.boston.gov · 20/02/2025

The City of Boston is leading 40+ mayors, cities, and counties in an amicus brief against the Trump Administration's drastic and illegal cuts to federal research funding—cuts that will lead to immediate job losses nationwide.

COALITION OF MAYORS ACROSS U.S. FILE AMICUS BRIEF IN OPPOSITION TO TRUMP ADMINISTRATION’S DRASTIC CUTS TO FEDERAL RESEARCH FUNDING
Led by the City of Boston, MA, City of Cleveland, OH, the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, TN, the Mayor of Gainesville, FL, and the Mayor of Salt Lake City, UT, over 40 mayors, cities, and counties argue that NIH cuts will cause job losses, economic disruption, and undermine U.S. competitiveness

BOSTON - Thursday, February 20, 2025 - Late yesterday, Mayor Michelle Wu co-led a coalition of Mayors from across the United States in writing and filing an amicus brief in federal district court in Boston to stop the Trump Administration's drastic and illegal cuts to federal research funding and immediate job losses in cities nationwide. Over 40 mayors, cities, and counties from across the country joined the brief. These cities are home to universities and hospitals that employ hundreds of thousands of Americans in cutting edge medical and scientific research, and the federally-funded research in these communities has made the United States the global leader in scientific discovery. The brief seeks a temporary restraining order against the Trump Administration, alongside the research universities, medical schools, hospitals, and 22 states that are plaintiffs in the three cases filed last week in federal district court.

“For decades, Congress has made a clear choice to use federally-funded research to invest in cities, build a broadly-distributed infrastructure for scientific discovery, create jobs, and drive economic growth in communities across the United States,” said Mayor Michelle Wu. “We join with cities across the country – in red states, purple states, and blue states – to stop this illegal action that will cause layoffs, lab closures, and undermine scientific progress in American cities. I thank Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell for her leadership on behalf of the research institutions of Boston.”

This amicus brief is in response to the abrupt February 7, 2025 announcement by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) of an immediate reduction in funding for scientific and medical research institutions across the country. Under the NIH’s new policy, which temporarily went into effect on Monday, February 10, payments for indirect costs reimbursed to research universities would be capped at 15%, down from 30-70%. The brief makes clear that NIH funding cuts would devastate research institutions in cities across the county, cause job losses, create severe economic disruption, and undermine a critical pillar of strength and civic pride in cities across the United States. The cuts would also undermine critical medical and scientific research that residents are counting on, including cancer, diabetes, and heart disease, and jeopardize the cities’ and country’s position of global leadership on scientific advancement.
“The Gainesville community depends on this highly efficient, dependable investment of our tax dollars back into our city’s innovation economy,” said Harvey L. Ward, Mayor, City of Gainesville, Florida. “I’m glad to join other mayors in highlighting the vital role NIH funding plays in the lives of everyday hardworking American families.”
“The breadth and diversity of this coalition highlights the devastating and widespread impact of these NIH funding changes, from Alzheimer’s research to cancer clinical trials,” said Jill Habig, Founder and CEO of Public Rights Project. “We’re proud to partner with mayors, cities, and counties in opposing this threat to critical federal funding and the health and vitality of our communities.”
On Monday, February 10th, twenty two states and associations of medical schools, hospitals, and universities, filed three related cases, and secured a temporary restraining order preventing the Trump Administration from slashing the reimbursement rates. That initial order will be revisited this week in a hearing scheduled for Feb. 21.

The Public Rights Project served as amici counsel. The full list of mayors, cities and counties who joined the brief is below.

Local Governments and Mayors

City of Boston, Massachusetts
City of Cleveland, Ohio
Harvey L. Ward, Mayor, City of Gainesville, Florida
Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, Tennessee
Erin Mendenhall, Mayor, City of Salt Lake City, Utah
City of Alameda, California
City of Albuquerque, New Mexico
Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
City of Baltimore, Maryland
Emma Mulvaney-Stanak, Mayor, City of Burlington, Vermont
Township of Canton, Michigan
Town of Chapel Hill, North Carolina
City of Chicago, Illinois
Sandra Welch, Mayor, City of Coconut Creek, Florida
City of Columbus, Ohio
City of Easthampton, Massachusetts
Daniel Biss, Mayor, City of Evanston, Illinois
City of Fairfax, Virginia
Harris County, Texas
Ravinder S. Bhalla, Mayor, City of Hoboken, New Jersey
Quinton Lucas, Mayor, Kansas City, Missouri
Indya Kincannon, Mayor, City of Knoxville, Tennessee
City of Madison, Wisconsin
Jeff Silvestrini, Mayor, City of Millcreek, Utah
Anissa Welch, Mayor, City of Milton, Wisconsin
Montgomery County, Maryland
City of New Haven, Connecticut
Dontae Payne, Mayor, City of Olympia, Washington
Adrian O. Mapp, Mayor, City of Plainfield, New Jersey
Sue Noack, Mayor, City of Pleasant Hill, California
City of Pittsburgh and Ed Gainey, Mayor, City of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
City of Providence, Rhode Island
John Clark, Mayor, Town of Ridgway, Colorado
City of Rochester, New York
City of Sacramento, California
City and County of San Francisco, California
City of Santa Monica, California
Constantine H. Kutteh, Mayor, City of Statesville, North Carolina
Lisa Brown, Mayor, City of Spokane, Washington
Tishaura O. Jones, Mayor, City of St. Louis, Missouri
City of St. Paul, Minnesota
Dennis R. McBride, Mayor, City of Wauwatosa, Wisconsin

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Nature Story "Revealed: NIH research grants still frozen despite lawsuits challenging Trump order" (with non-paywalled link) archive.ph/7h6Im

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Nature @nature.com · 20/02/2025

Almost all grant-review meetings under Trump 2.0 remain suspended at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), preventing the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research from spending much of its US$47 billion annual budget. go.nature.com/4gM6oW4

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Revealed: NIH research grants still frozen despite lawsuits challenging Trump order

The Trump administration is exploiting a loophole to keep a funding freeze in place, leaving researchers in limbo.

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Ryan Tomlinson @ryanet.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

SBDD was supposed to meet today, but looks like "This meeting did not take place as scheduled". public.csr.nih.gov/StudySection... . When do we sound the alarm?

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SBDD | NIH Center for Scientific Review

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Margaret A. McNulty @drmamcnulty.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Where are our institutional leaders? Why am I not seeing statements posted denouncing these cuts? Why is almost every major medical school, particularly in red states, my own included, absolutely silent on what is going on? If we won’t save ourselves, who will?

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Please call or write to your elected representatives and state Attorneys General and explain to them that NIH submissions to the Federal Register must be permitted immediately. This is a bureaucratic end run around a court order to resume NIH funding. 5calls.org

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5 Calls

Spend 5 minutes. Make 5 calls. Make your voice heard.

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Orthopaedic Research Society @orssociety.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Up to $30,000 for Early-Career Scientists! Call for submissions now open for the @BethelMRC/ORS Fellowship. This opportunity funds research to drive innovative treatments for #musculoskeletal diseases. Learn more or apply: buff.ly/4k7TNiM...

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 20/02/2025

☀️📣 Looking for a STATE LEAD and VOLUNTEERS to help us #standupforscience2025 in Illinois! Know someone interested? Fill out this form: airtable.com/app4h5wUssMG... #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence

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Dr. Cynthia Chang @drcynthiacchang.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

The committee on Science, Space, and Technology are collecting testimony of Federal employees fired in the past days. Please share with your colleagues and friends. The more testimony, the better we can argue against this injustice.

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Were you fired by President Trump? | House Committee on Science, Space and Technology

The House Committee on Science, Space and Technology

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Luca Modenese @modenaxe.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

To all biomechanists with a love for computer simulations! You can still submit your abstract and join the 20th International Symposium on computer simulation in biomechanics (TGCS 2025) – abstract submission is open until 10th March 2025! (1/2)

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 18/02/2025

🧬☀️ Thank you to @science.org and @alexaroblesgil.bsky.social for featuring #StandUpforScience2025! Want to learn more about why we're Standing Up for Science and who's behind it? Read below! ⬇️ www.science.org/content/arti...

Screenshot of science magazine with the title, ‘I really wanted something to happen.’ The students behind the Stand Up for Science protests and the subtitle, new group hopes to turn out researchers for 7 March demonstrations against Trump administration policies. A photo of the March for Science in 2017 featuring bill nye is below the title.

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Science Magazine @science.org · 18/02/2025

More and more scientists are joining the ranks of fired federal workers—and fighting back through protests, appeals, and legal challenges.

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Mass firings decimate U.S. science agencies

White House dismissals and rationale challenged by dismissed scientists and lawsuits

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Light-Sheet Fluorescence Microscopy (LSFM) course @lsfm-na.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Registration for LSFM at @mdibl-lmf.bsky.social 6/1-6/7 is now open! This is an amazing academic environment, and is unique that all the major vendors will be there and students are ENCOURAGED to bring their own samples! mdibl.org/course/lsfm-...

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Light Sheet Fluorescence Microscopy 2025

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Osteoarthritis and Cartilage Journal @oacjournal.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Deadline extended for the #SpecialEdition of #OAC focusing on #OMICS! Submissions will be accepted until May 1st, 2025. buff.ly/42J3RbR

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Thanks to all of the NIHers and their friends who reached out to me. I am still here (DM me or Signal jeremymberg.78) I still have a very incomplete picture but based on what I have been told, the damage to NIH and to many wonderful people who work(ed) there is/was impossible for me to imagine 1/n

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Rick Huganir @rhuganir.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

I have been talking to the media, Time, Fortune, NBC, etc., to explain how the onslaught on science and NIH will impact the health of all Americans. Everyone knows someone who has cancer, heart disease, or depression. Spread the word about how cutting science impacts all. time.com/7216299/nih-...

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Experts Call NIH Budget Cuts an 'Apocalypse' for Science

The reductions target indirect costs that cover administrative and equipment costs.

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ACR Journals @acr-journals.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Call for new applicants for Rheum With a (re)View—a mentoring program focused on cultivating manuscript reviewers for the ACR’s 3 scientific journals. ACR/ARP members with research experience are encouraged to apply by March 31 Details → acr.tw/3xvknyR

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Science Magazine @science.org · 14/02/2025

President Donald Trump’s administration today moved to fire 5200 workers at the Department of Health and Human Services, using supervisors across the vast agency to warn probationary employees that they would soon receive termination notices. scim.ag/4jYmcYA

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‘Wrecking ball’: RFK Jr. moves to fire thousands of health agency employees

Supervisors deliver bad news across NIH, CDC

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 12/02/2025

Welcome to the Bluesky account for Stand Up for Science 2025! Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide! #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence

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Osteoarthritis and Cartilage Journal @oacjournal.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Now accepting nominations for #Publication of the Year! The deadline to submit is March 3rd, 2025! buff.ly/3CP2gXm

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Anne-Marie Malfait @jointsintheworld.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Save the date: C-COMP Seminar, featuring Dr. Zsuzsa Jenei-Lanzl from Goethe University Monday, February 24, 2025, 3:00 PM Central Time "The vicious circle of chronic stress, inflammation and pain in osteoarthritis"

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Rachel Miller @rem7106.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Excited about lightsheet imaging? Check out @robinvroman.bsky.social 's talk today in the NIRA knee session at #ORS2025 and our article in @orssociety.bsky.social with @jointsintheworld.bsky.social

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Sarah Rice @grainofscience.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

It's time to submit your latest research for a Special Issue of @oacjournal.bsky.social! We look forward to reading all of your latest research & seeing this issue come together. Deadline May 1st 🧬🦴 www.sciencedirect.com/journal/oste... @oarsi-eci.bsky.social @jointsintheworld.bsky.social

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Ted Price @tedpricethepainguy.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

BOOM! Epidermal Langerhans Cells Drive Painful Diabetic Neuropathy in a Sex-dependent Manner www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... absolutely remarkable sex difference reported here, with some neat Semaphorin-Plexin signaling from Menichella lab led by Paola Pacifico

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Epidermal Langerhans Cells Drive Painful Diabetic Neuropathy in a Sex-dependent Manner

The interaction between non-neuronal cells and nerve endings in the epidermis significantly influences the development of various diseases, including Painful Diabetic Neuropathy (PDN). PDN is a common...

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