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Wednesday, May 16, 2007

Bald no more?

Is this the path to a baldness cure that men the world over have so desperately desired? It sounds promising for sure. Can't wait to see what a genetic treatment for baldness will cost.
clipped from news.bbc.co.uk
It was thought hair follicles, once damaged, could never be replaced.
But a University of Pennsylvania, US, team, writing in the journal Nature, says hair growth can actually be encouraged using a single gene.
"Now this shows convincingly that under the conditions peculiar to the wound-healing environment, the highly complex hair follicle can be created anew from apparently unremarkable cells of the healing epidermis and its underlying dermis."
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