by Imperial College London Schematic of the experimental outline and hypothesis showing skin biopsies at baseline and then 2, 4 and 6 months after hair transplantation. Credit: Caroline Brogan, Imperial College London In a new Imperial College London study involving three volunteers, skin scars began to behave more like uninjured skin after they were treated...
A single chemical is key to controlling when hair follicle cells divide and when they die. This discovery could not only treat baldness but ultimately speed wound healing because follicles are a source of stem cells. Most cells in the human body have a specific form and function determined during embryonic development that does not change. For...
by Hokkaido University A fluorescent micrograph of a cross-section through an epidermal blister on mice skin. The epidermis (green) is detached from the other layers (magenta) of skin tissue. Credit: Yu Fujimura, et al. EMBO Reports. June 4, 2021 A team of scientists has shown that the healing of skin blisters is driven by hair follicle stem...
UNIVERSITY OF HUDDERSFIELD GROUND-BREAKING research from the University of Huddersfield, announced ahead of World Cancer Day 2021, proves that scalp cooling physically protects hair follicles from chemotherapy drugs. It is the world’s first piece of biological evidence that explains how scalp cooling actually works and the mechanism behind its protection of the hair follicle. The...
How does the skin develop follicles and eventually sprout hair? A USC-led study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), addresses this question using insights gleaned from organoids, 3D assemblies of cells possessing rudimentary skin structure and function—including the ability to grow hair. In the study, first author Mingxing Lei, a postdoctoral scholar...
Jeff Biernaskie’s research identifies a factor essential for dermal stem cells to continuously divide during tissue regeneration. Stem cell researchers at the University of Calgary have found another piece of the puzzle behind what may contribute to hair loss and prevent wounds from healing normally. Jeff Biernaskie’s research, published recently in the scientific journal npj...
