Newborn girls prefer to look at faces while newborn boys prefer to look at mechanical stimuli (such as mobiles). (inc.com)
The scientists discovered that a class of mechanoreceptors in the skin that detect painful mechanical stimuli are part of a feedback circuit in which excitatory neurons that produce the hormone somatostatin are inhibited by neurons that synthesize dynorphin (a natural analgesic molecule that produces effects similar to opiates). (sciencedaily.com)
In vivo tracking of segmental bone defect healing reveals that callus patterning is related to early mechanical stimuli. (additivebiomanufacturing.org)