Monday 7 April 2014

New Grasp of Soft Touch from Scripps Research Institute Scientists

The long standing mystery about the sense of touch has been unraveled by the scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) in a study. The "gentle touch" sensations that convey the stroke of a finger, the fine texture of something grasped and the light pressure of a breeze on the skin are brought to us by nerves that often terminate against special skin cells called Merkel cells. These skin cells' role in touch sensation has long been debated in the scientific ...

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