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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

Mature hair follicles have been grown in a laboratory for the first time, in a move that could one day treat hair loss. Artificially producing hair follicles has historically been very difficult ...

Cross section of a hair follicle. New research into factors that control the life and death of hair follicle cells could help people with baldness, as well as wound healing, according to ...

Certain cancer drugs that inhibit these receptors may cause a patient to develop curly hair as a side effect. Have a burning science question you’d like to see answered in our FYI section?

According to the team of scientists, melanocytes stem cells become stuck inside the hair follicle and are unable to produce pigment.

Being able to more precisely control levels of TGF-beta could also one day cure baldness, which bothers millions of people all over the world. “Potentially our work could offer something to help ...

In cross-section, the cells of the growing hair peg appear homogenous, although the cells at the leading edge show a characteristic gene expression profile (Fig. 1, stage 2).