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

"There’s no magic trick to growing it past what your genetics allow." So save your money on those hair-growth supplements.

At the base of the freshly emptied follicle, cells multiply to form a new hair and the growth cycle begins again. Rinse, wash ...

UVA’s Dr. Lu Q. Le and his team have identified a previously overlooked stem cell population in the upper and middle sections ...

Figure 1: Diagram of the anagen hair follicle, which is in the active growth ... since a minimum number of melanocytes located deep in the hair bulb must be converted to color a single hair ...

Hair follicles are unique structures with exceptional ... The inferior unit consists of the follicular bulb, including the keratogenous zone. Possessing multiple receptors for a vast number ...

The animal’s placenta is packed with proteins (called growth factors) which stimulate the production of cells that make up hair follicles, the bulb-like roots in the skin from which hairs spring.

In Part I of the review (July/August 2004), the anatomy of hair follicles, the diagnostic approach to diseases leading to hair loss, and nonscarring alopecias were discussed. In this article (Part ...