A new study has identified a protein that appears to be essential for hair growth and hair follicle protection. Called MCL‑1, ...

Hair serves an important cosmetic function for humans, and the hair follicle produces sweat gland products that help to control body temperature and release pheromones 3. Billions of people ...

Alopecia is an autoimmune disorder that causes non-scarring hair loss on the scalp and body that is experienced by almost 2% ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The latest trend in treating hair loss may sound familiar — essentially, it’s a repurposed drug first ...

They used an altered form of cold virus to deliver what they have named the "Sonic hedgehog" gene (after a video-game character), which plays a central role in hair follicle development.

Figure 3: Expression of dl in skin. Figure 4: Absence of expression of early hair follicle markers in dl mutant skin. Although it is not clear why two separate inductive pathways exist ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Kurt Stenn has studied hair for 30 years and lectured extensively on the biology of the hair follicle. In his recent book "Hair: A Human History," he dives into the ...

Most important for the survival of the hair follicle are the epithelial stem cells within the follicular bulge that communicate with the fibroblasts of the dermal papilla. These structures may be ...

In a hair follicle cell, a protein called keratin is made. Lots of it. Many ribosomes can be working on a single strand of mRNA at once. Protein synthesis isn't a slow process, either. A protein ...