Lock it in — before it’s too late. Once your hair is already gone, regrowth treatments can only do so much — and in rare cases, they can have some serious side effects. But what if you could have a savings account… for your strands? Enter hair banking, the experimental treatment that could help fight future … Read more
A cure for baldness could be on the horizon. Researchers from Taiwan University say they have discovered a serum that could potentially regrow hair in just 20 days. The study, published in the journal Cell Metabolism, showed that fat cells under the skin can restart hair growth. The researchers used mouse skin samples to monitor changes to … Read more
It’s the bald truth. Researchers at San Carlos Clinical Hospital in Madrid have developed a cure for androgenetic alopecia, commonly known as pattern hair loss. An estimated 80 million Americans — 50 million men and 30 million women — experience some form of alopecia, although it affects women differently than men. Researchers at San Carlos … Read more
Is there a sweet new solution to the bitter luck of baldness? Scientists say they may have accidentally discovered a revolutionary cure for male pattern baldness, a genetic condition that affects up to half of men and a quarter of women by age 50. Researchers found the gel treatment to be just as effective as … Read more
He’s a-head of his time. Chris Wink, a New York native and one of the founding members of the iconic performance art company Blue Man Group, has found a new way to express his imaginative soul on the outside — by rocking a variety of intricate mohawks he calls “art fins.” “I’ve got this bald … Read more
You might be annoyed by a skin mole that sprouts hair, but that mole might hold the cure for baldness. The secret, according to researchers at the University of California, Irvine, is a molecule known as osteopontin that’s found in hairy moles. The human body is covered with hair follicles, most of which are so … Read more
Baldness could soon be a thing of the past. A team of Japanese researchers has successfully grown mature hair follicles in a lab, an advancement in the battle against hair loss. Scientists from Yokohama National University — who have been studying hair follicle growth and hair pigmentation — generated hair follicles in petri dishes using … Read more