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A World Without Pain

September 25, 2013March 5, 2017 Jillian L. Shaw 2006, Al-Gazali, An SCN9A channelopathy causes congenital inability to experience pain, Cox, Dorsal Root Ganglia, Infographic, mutation, Nature, Nav1.7, Neuropathic, Nociceptor, Pain, SCN9A, Sodium channel, Somatosensory, Tetrodotoxin

In Northern Pakistan, a ten-year old street performer awed and horrified crowds with his ability to place knives through his arms and walk across burning coals all seemingly without pain.… Read more