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Surprise Hair Loss Breakthrough: A Sugar Gel Triggers Robust Regrowth

Health20 December 2024 ByCarly Cassella (Kindel Media/Pexels) Earlier this year, scientists stumbled upon a potential new treatment for hereditary-patterned baldness, the most common cause of hair loss in both men and women worldwide. It all started with research on a sugar that naturally occurs in the body and helps form DNA: the ‘deoxyribose’ part of deoxyribonucleic acid. While studying...

One step closer to reversing liver failure: Study shows how liver is triggered to regrow when damaged
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One step closer to reversing liver failure: Study shows how liver is triggered to regrow when damaged

by Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre Credit: Developmental Cell (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2024.01.024Researchers at Peter Mac have made a key discovery in liver regeneration that may have important implications for liver cancer. Joint research by Associate Professor Andrew Cox and Professor Mark Dawson, published Feb. 15 in Developmental Cell, has identified how the liver is triggered to regrow...

New method can promote regrowth of long bones more affordably and with fewer side effects
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New method can promote regrowth of long bones more affordably and with fewer side effects

by Kim Krieger, University of Connecticut Schematic of fabrication process of anatomically shaped scaffolds from rabbit radius bone. Credit: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2023). DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2219756120 Repairing severely damaged bones is a challenge—especially the long bones of the arms and legs. Now, UConn Health scientists describe a new method in the May 22 issue of...