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

Cooling caps protect hair during chemo – but only at the right temperature. Antioxidants may help when cooling falls short.

Dull strands, flaky scalp, or sudden shedding? Experts break down how vitamin A affects hair health, how much you really need ...

In their lab tests, researchers found depleting these stem cells at certain times halted hair growth, highlighting their essential role in hair formation and their potential link to hair loss. Based ...

When they die, they break down inside your hair follicles and sebaceous glands. Demodex mites are contagious. They move from person to person by contact with hair, eyebrows, or oil glands on the skin.

Fact 2: Gray hair is caused by more than the ageing process. Since graying occurs at the hair follicle, a hair’s pigment can’t be changed once it has grown from the follicle.

Hair follicle structure. Image: Getty Images designer29. Ross Radusky, a dermatologist, principal investigator, and medical director at the Dermatology Treatment & Research Center in Dallas, ...

Hair follicle infections are often difficult to treat because bacteria settle in the gap between hair and skin, where it is difficult for active substances to reach them. In order to investigate ...

UCLA scientists recently alerted a “breakthrough” discovery involving a molecule named PP405 that can “waken long-slumbering but undamaged” hair follicles, according to a press release.

‘90s hair loss treatment growing in popularity, follicle by follicle Published: Mar. 19, 2025, 10:44 a.m. FILE - A barber cuts a client's hair at a barber shop in Chattanooga, Tenn., on Tuesday ...

The NYU study showed that as the hair regrowth process aged, the number of McSC’s lodged in the follicle bulge continued to increase. At some points, this non-pigment producing follicle bulge ...

Cooling hair follicles to an optimal temperature of 18 °C during chemotherapy can fully protect them from drug-induced damage, but higher temperatures reduce this effect.