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Gray hair and vitiligo reversed at the root

Hair dye manufacturers are on notice: The cure for gray hair is coming. That's right, the need to cover up one of the classic signs of aging with chemical pigments will be a thing of the past thanks to a team of European ...

Medical research created May 03, 2013 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (34) | comments 14 | with audio podcast

Research identifies inhibitor causing male pattern baldness and target for hair-loss treatments

Researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania have identified an abnormal amount a protein called Prostaglandin D2 in the bald scalp of men with male pattern baldness, a discovery that ...

Medical research created Mar 21, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (11) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Japan study raises hopes of cure for baldness

Japanese researchers have successfully grown hair on hairless mice by implanting follicles created from stem cells, they announced Wednesday, sparking new hopes of a cure for baldness.

Medical research created Apr 18, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (13) | comments 0

Scientists achieve breakthrough in understanding sense of touch

(Medical Xpress) -- A research team including University of Wyoming neurobiologist Jeff Woodbury has discovered a new technique to determine how the touch sensory system is organized in hairy skin, providing ...

Neuroscience created Apr 02, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

How skin is wired for touch

Compared to our other senses, scientists don't know much about how our skin is wired for the sensation of touch. Now, research reported in the December 23rd issue of the journal Cell provides the first picture of how specia ...

Neuroscience created Dec 22, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Medical myth: Stress can turn hair grey overnight

The belief that nervous shock can cause you to go grey overnight (medically termed canities subita) is one of those tales which could nearly be true. There are certainly cases in medical literature of ra ...

Health created Feb 27, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 4

Hair loss pathology identified in pityriasis versicolor lesions

(HealthDay) -- Patients with pityriasis versicolor (PV) lesions may experience hair thinning and/or loss within the lesion, according to a study published online May 10 in the Journal of the American Academy of ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created May 23, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers uncover novel role of BRCA1 in regulating the survival of skin stem cells

Our DNA, which stores our genetic information, is constantly exposed to damage. If not properly repaired, DNA damage can lead to cell death. This, in turn, can lead to tissue exhaustion and ageing, or induce mutations resulting ...

Cancer created Jan 03, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Sweat glands play major role in healing human wounds, research shows

Turns out the same glands that make you sweat are responsible for another job vital to your health: they help heal wounds.

Medical research created Nov 20, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers uncover the molecular mechanisms leading to basal cell carcinoma initiation

One of the most outstanding and unresolved questions in cancer biology is the identification of cells at the origin of cancer and the understanding of the molecular changes that occur in tumor initiating cells from the first ...

Cancer created Nov 26, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Hair-cell-derived patient-specific heart cells for disease modeling and drug screening

Hair follicle keratinocytes offer a simple and accessible route to generate patient-specific induced pluripotent stem cells, iPSCs, with minimum inconvenience for the patients, shows study presented at the ESC Congress 2011 ...

Cardiology created Aug 29, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Why our backs can't read braille: Scientists map sensory nerves in mouse skin

Johns Hopkins scientists have created stunning images of the branching patterns of individual sensory nerve cells. Their report, published online in the journal eLife on Dec. 18, details the arrangement of the ...

Medical research created Dec 19, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Scientists uncover cells at the origin of basal cell carcinoma

For years researchers have been trying to identify the molecular changes that occur in tumour-initiating cells from the very first oncogenic mutation to the development of invasive tumors. The most frequently ...

Cancer created Dec 21, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Bioluminescence imaging lights up stem cell therapy for hair growth

Finding a way to restore hair growth after substantial hair loss is something of an obsession worldwide. Investigators at the Society of Nuclear Medicine's 2012 Annual Meeting presented how stem cell research for the development ...

Medical research created Jun 11, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0