Alaska had been on my travel wish list for a long time, and when we finally visited during the peak of summer, it turned out to be everything we imagined and more. From snow-capped mountains and ma…

The University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio, School Dentistry, is seeking applications for a full-time position of a tenure...

Three multi-year NIH grants target painful disease with low survival rate Contact: Steven Lee, (210) 450-3823, lees22@uthscsa.edu SAN ANTONIO, Nov. 7, 2025 – Researchers at the School of Dentistry at ...

There are some places that wrap you in a warm hug the moment you arrive, and Sedona in December is one of them. Nestled amidst towering red rock formations, this Arizona gem offers a tranquil retre…

A revolution in pain exploration has been launched with the school’s new Center for Pain Therapeutics and Addiction Research. Interdisciplinary collaboration is helping investigators study non-opioid ...

NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Notice of Short-Term Extension to Early-Stage Investigator (ESI) Eligibility Period NOT-OD-25-114. OD

Truncated TrkB (TrkBT1), traditionally considered a dominant-negative regulator of full-length TrkB (TrkBTK+), remains poorly understood in peripheral…

Pain sensation often involves mechanical modalities. Mechanically activated (MA) ion channels on sensory neurons underly responsiveness to mechanical stimuli. MA current properties have mainly been de...

UT Health San Antonio’s Accelerated Rise: Advancing Innovation, Research and National Impact

UF Center for Advanced Pain Therapeutics and Research (CAPToR) hosts inaugural symposium.

It may not just be tooth decay you need to worry about when it comes to sugary drinks: new research suggests that these sweetened beverages might also be raising the risk of oral cancer.

The nervous system can drive the initiation, growth, spread, and therapy resistance of cancer, and cancer can manipulate the nervous system in ways that further support disease progression. Tumors gro...

The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio earned a Research 1 (R1) designation from the American Council on Education and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching in ...

Cognitive biases can lead to overestimating the expected prevalence of exceptional multi-talented candidates, leading to potential dissatisfaction in …

PhD Project - Human sensory neuron and macrophage co-culture; developing a model to test agents capable of disrupting painful neuroimmune signalling at University of Glasgow, listed on FindAPhD.com

Kramer et al. analyzed gene expression, chromatin accessibility, and 3D chromatin structure in primary human chondrocytes in both normal and OA-like conditions. They mapped eQTLs, performed colocaliza...

Vertex’s first-in-class suzetrigine could soon usher in a new class of analgesic.

Background Osteoarthritis (OA) is a painful degenerative joint disease and a leading source of years lived with disability globally due to inadequate treatment options. Neuroimmune interactions report...

Truncated form of the tropomyosin receptor kinase B isoform (TrkBT1), traditionally considered a dominant-negative regulator of full-length TrkB (TrkBTK+), remains poorly understood in peripheral sens...

LncRNA XIST and Nav1.7 have been identified to be significantly associated with the onset of osteoarthritis. Prim-O-glucosylcimifugin (POG) has antiin…

mRNA translation is integral to pain, yet the key regulatory factors and their target mRNAs are unclear. Here, we uncover a mechanism that bridges nox…