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UW Scientists and Colleagues Achieve Breakthrough in Understanding Sense of Touch

UW Scientists and Colleagues Achieve Breakthrough in Understanding Sense of Touch

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  •  April 1, 2012
  •  UW Scientists and Colleagues Achieve Breakthrough in Understanding Sense of Touch
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  •  Cutting-edge, FYI, Innovation, Promising, Robotics, University of Wyoming
  •  Tagged with: colleagues achieve breakthrough, David Ginty, department of zoology, howard hughes medical, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, hughes medical institute, johns hopkins university, multidisciplinary research team, nerve cells, neurobiologist jeff woodbury, neuron, pre-eminent international journals, preeminent international journals, research team, sense of touch, sensory system, Somatosensory system, university of pennsylvania, university of wyoming, uw scientists and colleagues achieve breakthrough in understanding sense of touch
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A new understanding of the sense of touch A research team including University of Wyoming neurobiologist Jeff Woodbury has discovered a new technique to determine how the touch sensory system is organized in hairy skin, providing [...]

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