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8. Baldness
Wed Sep 19, 2012, 09:30 AM
Sep 2012

Hope for the hairless as reactivating follicle stem cells could cure baldness - http://baldness.webs.com - the researchers also found that the precursor fat cells were producing a platelet-derived growth factor — at 100 times the level of surrounding cells — that appeared to be kick-starting the follicles to grow hair. Injecting the growth factor into the skin of defective mice could trigger hair growth in 86% of follicles.

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