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New Treatments for Baldness? Scientists Find Stem Cells That Tell Hair It's Time to Grow
September 1, 2011 — Researchers have discovered the source of signals that trigger hair growth, an insight that may lead to new treatments for ... > full story -
Why Hair Turns Gray: Communication Between Hair Follicles and Melanocyte Stem Cells Key to Mystery
June 14, 2011 — A new study has shown that, for the first time, Wnt signaling, already known to control many biological processes, between hair follicles and melanocyte stem cells can dictate hair ... > full story -
Genetic Mutation Causing Excessive Hair Growth Discovered
June 3, 2011 — Researchers have discovered a chromosomal mutation responsible for a very rare condition in which people grow excess hair all over their bodies. Investigators hope the finding ultimately will lead to ... > full story -
Potential for Solution to Baldness? Surprising Clues About Communication in Hair Stem Cell Populations
May 9, 2011 — In one of the first studies to look at the population behavior of a large pool of stem cells in thousands of hair follicles -- as opposed to the stem cell of a single hair follicle -- scientists ... > full story -
Hair Styles May Contribute to Scarring Hair Loss in African-American Women
April 11, 2011 — Hair grooming practices, such as braids and weaves, as well as inflammation in the form of bacterial infection, may be contributing to the development of scarring hair loss in African American women, ... > full story -
Hair Dyeing Poised for First Major Transformation in 150 Years
March 2, 2011 — Technological progress may be fast-paced in many fields, but one mundane area has been almost left in the doldrums for the last 150 years: The basic technology for permanently coloring hair. That's ... > full story -
Regrowing Hair: Researchers May Have Accidentally Discovered a Solution
February 16, 2011 — Scientists were investigating how stress affects gastrointestinal function may have found a chemical compound that induces hair growth by blocking a stress-related hormone associated with hair loss ... > full story -
Losing Hair at 20 Is Linked to Increased Risk of Prostate Cancer in Later Life, Study Finds
February 15, 2011 — Men who start to lose hair at the age of 20 are more likely to develop prostate cancer in later life and might benefit from screening for the disease, according to a new ... > full story -
Drugs for Hair Loss and Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia May Result in Loss of Libido, Erectile Dysfunction in Men
January 11, 2011 — Researchers have found that 5a-reductase inhibitors, while improving urinary symptoms in patients with benign prostatic hyperplasia and possible hair loss prevention, produces significant adverse ... > full story -
Male Pattern Balding May Be Due to Stem Cell Inactivation
January 4, 2011 — Using cell samples from men undergoing hair transplants, researchers compared follicles from bald scalp and non-bald scalp, and found that bald areas had the same number of stem cells as normal scalp ... > full story
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