Category: Hair Loss

Treatment For Hearing Loss? Scientists Grow Hair Cells Involved in Hearing

Mar 14 2016- POSTED BY Subhadip

Scientists have successfully produced functional auditory hair cells in the cochlea of the mouse inner ear. The breakthrough suggests that […]

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Why Hair Turns Gray Is No Longer A Gray Area: Our Hair Bleaches Itself As We Grow Older

Mar 14 2016- POSTED BY Subhadip

New research finds that going gray is caused by a massive build up of hydrogen peroxide due to wear and […]

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Using stem cells to grow new hair

Mar 14 2016- POSTED BY Subhadip

Scientists at Sanford-Burnham used iPSCs to grow new hair. Credit: Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute In a new study from Sanford-Burnham […]

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New treatments for baldness? Scientists find stem cells that tell hair it’s time to grow

Mar 09 2016- POSTED BY Subhadip

Researchers have discovered the source of signals that trigger hair growth, an insight that may lead to new treatments for […]

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Inhibitor causing male pattern baldness and target for hair-loss treatments identified

Mar 09 2016- POSTED BY Subhadip

Researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania have identified an abnormal amount a protein called […]

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Depressive symptoms and suicidal thoughts found in former finasteride users

Mar 09 2016- POSTED BY Subhadip

New research, to be published in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, finds that men who developed persistent sexual side effects […]

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Certain form of baldness at age 45 linked to higher risk for aggressive prostate cancer

Mar 08 2016- POSTED BY Subhadip

A new, large cohort analysis from the prospective Prostate, Lung, Colorectal and Ovarian (PLCO) Cancer Screening Trial, indicates that men […]

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FDA-approved drug restores hair in patients with alopecia areata

Mar 08 2016- POSTED BY Subhadip

Researchers at Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) have identified the immune cells responsible for destroying hair follicles in people with […]

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Human ‘hairless’ gene identified: One form of baldness explained

Mar 04 2016- POSTED BY Subhadip

It’s not a hair-brained idea: A new research report appearing in the April 2014 issue of The FASEB Journal explains […]

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