Today, you’ll learn about a brainy new study on chronic pain, how female frogs play dead to avoid having to deal with male frogs, and a possible breakthrough on avian flu that involves editing chickens. 

Brain & Chronic Pain 

• “New study provides evidence for more effective brain-based treatment of chronic back pain.” ScienceDaily. 2023.  
• “New Study Provides Evidence for More Effective Brain-Based Treatment of Chronic Back Pain.” by Julia Milzer. 2023.  
• “Retraining the brain to treat chronic pain.” NIH. 2021.  

Frogs Play Dead  

• “Drop dead! Female mate avoidance in an explosively breeding frog.” by Carolin Dittrich. 2023.  
• “Explosive breeding in tropical anurans: environmental triggers, community composition, and acoustic structure.” by Juan Sebastian Ulloa, et al. 2019.  

Avian Flu Gene Edit 

• “Creating resistance to avian influenza infection through genome editing of the ANP32 gene family.” by Alewo Idoko-Akoh. 2023.  
• “Bird Flu Cost the US $3.3 Billion and Worse Could Be Coming.” by Maryn Mckenna. 2015.  

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