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2026 Dean’s Award: Michael Sindoni – Duke Graduate School

Precision under pressure: The dawn of membrane tension clampingBiophysical Journal

Body’s Touch Sensor has a Previously Undiscovered Signal – Duke Today

Inclusive Mentorship with High School Scholars: The Duke University Neuroscience ExperienceDuke The Graduate School

Trading backpacks for lab coats: High school students become neuroscientists at DukeWUNC

Measuring the Lightest Touch Your Body Responds ToPratt News

Finally Getting to Scratch That Itch – Pain Research Forum

Sensing the pressure – eLife

Preisträger lüfteten Geheimnis um SinneseindrückeJungfrauzeitung

Two scientists win Nobel Prize in medicine for how we sense temperature and touchStatnews

Mole-Rat Pain Resistance Could Point the Way to New Analgesics – Scientific American

A cellular mechanism for age-induced itch – Science

Proteins get touchy under pressure – Chemistry World – The Royal Society of Chemistry

Why do we feel hot and cold as pain? – BBC Future

Getting in Touch with Jörg Grandl –Trends in Biochemical Science (TIBS)

A Tour De (Tiny) Force – Duke Today

Turning Duke Experiences into Science Fair Gold – Duke Research Blog

Why You Always Know Where Your Nose IsThe Atlantic

Pain-Sensing Gene Named for Rocky Duke Today

Small Mutation Changes Brain Freeze to Hot FootDuke Today

How Cartilage Cells Sense Forceful InjuryDuke Today

Key Osmotic Channel Protein IdentifiedThe Scientist