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Hope for baldness cure
Tuesday May 01, 2012 08:40:20 AM,
IANS
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London: New hopes of
a cure for baldness have been sparked after Japanese researchers
claimed to have successfully grown hair on hairless mice, The
Independent reported Monday.
Scientists from the Tsuji Lab Research Institute for Science and
Technology at the Tokyo University of Science successfully
implanted follicles created from stem cells onto the hairless
rodents.
The creatures eventually grew hair, which continued regenerating
in normal growth cycles after old hairs fell out.
When stem cells are grown into tissues or organs, they usually
need to be extracted from embryos. However, professor Takashi
Tsuji, who led the team, found hair follicles can be grown with
adult stem cells.
It is now hoped that people could possibly use their own cells for
implants that will give them their hair back, the newspaper added.
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