The skin has two types of adult stem cells: epidermal and hair follicle. Their jobs seem well-defined: maintaining the skin, or maintaining hair growth. But as research from Rockefeller University has ...

A new study has identified a protein that appears to be essential for hair growth and hair follicle protection. Called MCL‑1, it could potentially be targeted by treatments for certain kinds of ...

Researchers have developed a new drug that regrows hair by reactivating dormant hair follicle cells. The approach is different than current treatments, which only slow down hair loss. It reactivates ...

Graying hair could be a sign that the body is effectively protecting itself from cancer, a new study suggests. Cancer-causing ...

Thinning hair has always been a symptom of aging, but experts say men seem to be losing their hair earlier than previous generations. Modern lifestyles may quicken hair loss due to increased stress, ...

Billions of our cells die every day to make way for the growth of new ones. Most of these goners are cleaned up by phagocytes - mobile immune cells that migrate where needed to engulf problematic ...

Hair follicle stem cells (green) mobilize and expand (white) to help repair the skin’s barrier by differentiating into epidermal lineages (red). When a child falls off her bike and scrapes her knee, ...

Intermittent fasting has proven benefits for metabolic health, but a new study shows that it could slow hair growth in mice by inhibiting hair follicle regeneration. A research team headed by ...

Every day, the human body removes billions of dead cells. 1 Professional phagocytes, such as macrophages and dendritic cells, do a lot of the heavy lifting, but some non-immune cells, the so-called ...