Despite being four times thicker than human hair, elephant hair is only half as strong—that’s just one finding from researchers studying the hair strength of…
Working with model mice, post-mortem human brains, and people with schizophrenia, researchers at the RIKEN Center for Brain Science in Japan have discovered that a…
Few things on earth strike fear into the hearts of men more profoundly than hair loss. But reversing baldness could someday be as easy as…
Scientists have determined a new way to protect the hair follicle from chemotherapy in an effort to prevent hair loss as a result of cancer…
An outstanding question in dermatology that researchers have studied for decades is: How do hair follicles emerge from a sea of seemingly uniform skin cells…
Indiana University School of Medicine researchers have cultured the first lab-grown skin tissue complete with hair follicles. This skin model, developed using stem cells from…
Researchers reveal that regulatory T cells, a type of immune cell generally associated with controlling inflammation, directly trigger stem cells in the skin to promote…
A new study from Yale University reveals that a topical formulation of an oral medication used to treat bone marrow diseases can be used to…
New research from Columbia University reveals that inhibiting a family of enzymes inside hair follicles restores hair growth. The research is published in the online…
Using an existing FDA-approved drug for rheumatoid arthritis called tofacitinib citrate, a man with alopecia universalis has grown a full head of hair, eyebrows and…
A new hair restoration method developed by researchers at Columbia University Medical Center is the first to induce new human hair growth. New York, New…
A newly published study reveals that the overexpression of growth factor Fgf9 in a mouse model increases the number of new hair follicles produced during…
Golden moles, mammals forming the family of Chrysochloridae, which taxonomically is distinct from true moles but to which they resemble due to species convergence, are…
Here’s some news that will make you think about throwing out your razor and giving up waxing. People with lots of body hair are better…