A centuries-old medicinal root is gaining renewed scientific attention for its ability to target multiple biological processes involved in hair loss. Androgenetic alopecia (AGA) is the most common ...

Hair might go gray when stem cells with wanderlust have their travels interrupted. Stem cells involved in making the pigment that gives hair its color behave much differently than other stem cells do, ...

Groundbreaking study could rewrite textbooks about how hair grows and spark new treatments - Advanced microscopy technique ...

A new imaging study challenges long-standing ideas about how hair grows and could lead to new treatments for hair loss. Scientists have discovered that human hair does not emerge because it is pushed ...

This article was reviewed by Knox Beasley, MD. Key Takeaways: Each hair follicle is a tiny but complex structure. From the ...

Rockefeller scientists uncovered how hair follicle stem cells can switch from growing hair to repairing skin when nutrients run low. The key lies in serine, an amino acid that activates a stress ...

DURHAM, N.C. -- It might look like a comet or a shooting star, but this time-lapse video is actually a tiny plant root, not much thicker than a human hair, magnified hundreds of times as it grows ...

Does a fountain of youth exist? Since science has yet to hit on a universal cure for aging, many find an antidote to the implacable march of time in a bottle— a bottle of hair dye, that is. Covering ...