Thursday, July 23, 2020

Neanderthals may have had a lower threshold for pain

Nerve cells have a special ion channel that has a key role in starting the electrical impulse that signals pain and is sent to the brain. New research finds that people who inherited the Neanderthal variant of this ion channel experience more pain.

from Health & Medicine News -- ScienceDaily https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/07/200723115900.htm

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