Cure Hair Loss

In a potentially far reaching and significant study, researchers at Stanford University have identified a molecule that triggers hair follicle growth in mice. So this study could in the future mean some benefit to those that suffer from hair loss.

The report, published in the Journal of Genes and Development, “focuses on a molecule called laminin-511. The molecule acts like an operator, transferring messages, or proteins, between the outer and inner layers of skin, an exchange that ultimately drives hair formation ”.

While there are products available currently that retard or slow down loss of hair, what this molecule could do is renew the actual follicles that grow hair! In that sense this appears to be a study that has broken new ground.

While obvious beneficiaries of such a treatment developing in the future could be anyone that suffers from hair loss, it could particularly benefit sufferers of alopecia and people suffering from cancer who have had to undergo chemotherapy with a result of loss of hair.

This research, however is in its very early stage and lots more is required to be done to figure out how this can be applied to humans.

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