Stanford researchers uncover the science behind that ‘tight skin’ feeling

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Researchers quantitatively investigated the mechanisms by which topical treatments modulate skin sensory perceptions, linking biomechanical changes in the skin to activation of cutaneous mechanoreceptors and subsequent neural signaling and correlating…

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New research reveals how social isolation impacts behavior and lifespan in social species

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Researchers used Camponotus fellah (carpenter ants) as a model species to perform behavioral tracking and ribonucleic acid-sequencing (RNA-seq) to study the transcriptome-level differences between socially isolated workers versus workers in groups.

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