New study identifies the role of a key growth factor in promoting formation of hair follicles and suggests a new therapeutic approach to treat baldness
US company Follica, says The Scientist, claims to have created a solution that creates new follicles in both mice and men, harnessing the principles of stem cells.
The paper's principal investigator, George Cotsarelis, MD, chair of Dermatology in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, and collaborators discovered that fibroblast growth factor 9 (Fgf9), a protein produced by a population of cells of the immune system in the skin, is critical for the formation of new hair follicles after disruption of the skin. The findings illuminate a molecular mechanism to regenerate hair follicles that could enable new treatments for hair loss.
Read more: http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/37149/title/A-Hair-Raising-Solution-/
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