Itchy and Scratchy is one of The Simpsons' most well-known parodies, and the episodes that center around it are some of the show's best.

New research published in the journal Science uncovers how scratching aggravates inflammation and swelling in a mouse model ...

Scratching an itch can bring a contradictory wave of pleasure and misery. A mouse study on scratching, reported in the Jan. 31 Science, fleshes out this ...

Is our social aversion to itch learned or instinctual? When researchers studied mice, they observed that pain evokes empathic consolation behavior, manifesting as licking or grooming to alleviate the ...

Each mouse was gently picked up by their tails using large tweezers covered with silicon ... 3.3 Histaminergic and non-histaminergic pruritogen-induced itchy eye stimulation increased the neural ...

Scratching an itchy rash really does make it worse. Now we know why, thanks to new research that uncovers how scratching aggravates inflammation and swelling in a mouse model of a type of eczema ...

Scratching an itchy rash really does make it worse. Now we know why, thanks to new research published today in ...

Researchers studied genetically modified mice that lack NP2 itch-sensing neurons, to investigate the connection between itch, scratch, and inflammation.