Scientists from University College London may have cured chronic pain

transporter_ii writes: Scientists from University College London seem to have come up with a two-pronged treatment regimen that they believe would help patients suffering from chronic pain. And in a strange irony, they did it by making it possible for mice – and one human – feel pain when they previously couldn’t. Unlike a lot of the recent medical news (anti-ageing pills?), this one seems fairly real-world and concrete. If so, this is actually a major breakthrough, which must be why it has not received a lot of press.