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A groundbreaking treatment for pain, eight times stronger than morphine, has been discovered by scientists. The revolutionary technique involves an injection of the protein prostatic acid phosphatase (PAP), which can combat serious discomfort for more than three days -- an astonishing 14 times as long as the five hours of pain relief brought about with a dose of morphine.
The substance appears to have few side effects, and works by neutralizing the chemical in your body that causes your brain to feel pain.
A research team pinpointed the identity of a particular "pain protein" in nerve cells, and then found a way of converting it from a substance that causes pain into one that suppresses it.