Newts help chemist and radiologists to locate source of pain
Thursday, January 30, 2014 - 06:30
in Biology & Nature
(Phys.org) —The California newts on the Stanford campus may be limited in physical range to the area around a small now-dry lake, but their sphere of scientific influence extends much farther. Work that started in these amphibians decades ago has now resulted in a tool that can highlight the location of pain generation for the first time in a living animal.