Redheads the best at coping with pain

REDHEADS are famous for their fiery tempers, but new research shows they are a lot better than blondes and brunettes at coping with pain.

A team of British scientists is investigating the gene responsible in the hope that it will lead to the development of new anaesthetics and pain killing drugs.

Professor Ian Jackson, from the Medical Research Council’s Human Genetics Unit, is working with “redhead” mice mimicking the same gene mutation.