Human sense of touch consists of 16 unique types of nerve cells: Study challenges notion of one type for each sensation

No less than 16 different types of nerve cells have been identified by scientists in a new study on the human sense of touch. Comparisons between humans, mice and macaques show both similarities and significant differences. The study, a collaboration between researchers at Linköping University and Karolinska Institutet in Sweden and the University of Pennsylvania, has been published in Nature Neuroscience.

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