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Baldness Cured? Breakthrough Serum Grows Mice Hair Back in Just 20 Days
Baldness cured? Breakthrough serum grows mice hair back in just 20 days
Skin irritation or inflammation "triggers a resting hair follicle to go into a growth phase," Dr. George Cotsarelis told Newsweek.
Researchers from National Taiwan University have developed a serum that caused hair regrowth in mice in just 20 days, raising questions about what the finding means for the treatment of human baldness.
"Though we did not test these fatty acids in human skin directly in clinical trials, our results suggest these fatty acids might also work in human to stimulate our hair follicle stem cells to promote hair growth," Dr. Sung-Jan (Jerry) Lin, one of the authors of the study and a professor in the department of Biomedical Engineering and department of Dermatology at the National Taiwan University, told Newsweek.
Experimental serum shows promise in reversing baldness within 20 days
Scientists at Taiwan University have discovered a potential baldness cure using fat cell serum that could regrow hair in just 20 days, offering new hope for hair loss treatment.
A cure for baldness could be on the horizon.
Researchers from Taiwan University say they have discovered a serum that could potentially regrow hair in just 20 days.
The study, published in the journal Cell Metabolism, showed that fat cells under the skin can restart hair growth.
NEW STEM CELL THERAPY SHOWS ‘PROMISING’ RESULTS FOR TREATING HAIR LOSS IN PRECLINICAL TRIALS
The researchers used mouse skin samples to monitor changes to the fat tissue under the skin, as well as to the hair follicles and the cells that help hair grow, after they caused small injuries to trigger certain reactions, according to a press release.
After skin injury, fat cells began breaking down stored fat in a process called lipolysis. Fatty acids were then released into the skin, which acted as a signal for hair stem cells to grow.
