Mouse Study May Target Hair Growth Method for Baldness
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Transplanting human hair onto the backs of mice may lead to a break-through for baldness treatments, scientists said.
The researchers cloned cells in the scalp that give rise to hair follicles and transplanted them onto the backs of mice, growing new human hair for at least six weeks, according to a study released today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. More work must be done before the method can be tried in humans.