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By Lauran Neergaard / The Bulletin
August 7, 2009
Got an itch to scratch? Scientists have pinpointed a group of cells that sends alerts to the brain.
When researchers at Washington University in St. Louis knocked out those cells in mice, it alleviated their itchiness without affecting their ability to sense pain " work that opens a....