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Japanese Researchers Claim to Have Found a Cure for Baldness

by Kathy Jones on May 1 2012 8:34 PM

 Japanese Researchers Claim to Have Found a Cure for Baldness
A report published in The Independent states that Japanese researchers have successfully managed to grow hair on bald mice, leading to hopes for a cure for baldness in near future.
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.

Source-IANS


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