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A partially recellularized human whole-heart cardiac scaffold

Understanding how blood vessels calcify could help prevent cardiovascular disease

A new type of dressing can promote healing and fight off infection in burn wounds

How do birds transmit potentially fatal fungal infection to humans without being infected themselves?

How and what we measure in animal studies of pain has huge implications for clinical translation.

Does pain in early childhood have a profound impact later in life?

Chronic pain is the most prevalent and expensive public health problem in the developed world, but as a society we consistently fail to recognize the scale of the public health issue.

Basic and clinical researchers must join forces to fight pain.

Hundreds of potential drug targets have been discovered by researchers mapping pain pathways, but clinical trials have proved unsuccessful in most cases. Can we pick our way through the translational maze to find much-needed new analgesics?