Cloning unique white blood cells could be the secret to solving a significant public health problem, pain. Chronic pain impacts tens of millions of people in the U.S. Few options are available to treat it effectively, especially now with a crackdown on opioids due to abuse with an estimated 107, 622 overdose deaths associated with it in the U.S. in 2021, according to The Center for Disease Control’s National Center for Health Statistics. During this week’s show, hosts Dr. John Phillips and Kym McNicholas talk to Vladimir Yarov-Yarovoy, a professor in the Department of Physiology and Membrane Biology at the UC Davis School of Medicine in Northern California about how a new research project could revolutionize pain treatment with fewer side effects and complications
