Stem cells offer clues to reversing receding hairlines

(University of Southern California - Health Sciences) Regenerative medicine may offer ways to banish baldness that don't involve toupees. The lab of USC scientist Krzysztof Kobielak, M.D., Ph.D., has published a trio of papers in the journals Stem Cells and The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that describe some of the factors that determine when hair grows, when it stops growing and when it falls out.
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