Hair cutting only affects the dead hair above the scalp, not the follicles that determine texture, color, and growth direction.

What if the secret to curing baldness has been hiding in your hair all along? University of Virginia School of Medicine ...

An exciting breakthrough from Columbia University researchers demonstrates a new way to grow human hair follicles using 3D printed molds. This is the first time human hair follicle cells have been ...

UVA’s Dr. Lu Q. Le and his team have identified a previously overlooked stem cell population in the upper and middle sections of the hair follicle that plays a crucial role in hair growth. When these ...

Researchers showed that cells in your hair follicles release important chemical messengers in response to gentle touches to your skin.

Hair miniaturization is a thinning of the hair follicles that leads to a receding hairline or balding. We’ll discuss treatments.

The skin has two types of adult stem cells: epidermal and hair follicle. Their jobs seem well-defined: maintaining the skin, ...

While the molecular biological study of hair has become an active field, even here, as in more traditional research, an understanding of the morphological aspects is essential because the hair ...

A single chemical is key to controlling when hair follicle cells divide, and when they die. This discovery could not only treat baldness, but ultimately speed wound healing because follicles are a ...

What Is Pili Multigemini? Pili multigemini, also known as compound hairs, is when a hair seems to have Siamese-twinned itself, and now two hairs (or even several more) grow from one single follicle.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The latest trend in treating hair loss may sound familiar — essentially, it’s a repurposed drug first popularized in the 1990s.

In his latest book, neuroscientist David Linden explains the science of touch. He tells Fresh Air how pain protects, why fingertips are so sensitive and why you can't read Braille with your genitals.