Clue to male baldness discovered

[limpyhobbler]

A biological clue to male baldness has been discovered, raising the prospect of a treatment to stop or even reverse thinning hair.

In studies of bald men and laboratory mice, US scientists pinpointed a protein that triggers hair loss.

Drugs that target the pathway are already in development, they report in the journal Science Translational Medicine.

The research could lead to a cream to treat baldness.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-17457098

[tech_smythe]

1. but then we'd loose greats like Jean luc picard!

and can we trigger it with cream?
that'd make shaving a thing of the past
oh my, gotta show my bf this!!!!!

[loli phabay]

7. reply

you would be rich if you could get cream to forever lose hair, personally i like wigs better anyway

[ZenLefty]

2. I always thought it was the gilette razor in my shower.

[Warren DeMontague]

3. I wonder what the evolutionary driver would be for something like that

Or is it just a glitch.

[limpyhobbler]

4. Probably because the sunlight reflecting off the bald heads would blind opponents in combat,

for a selective advantage.

[lumberjack_jeff]

5. Ear hair is a glitch. n/t

[Warren DeMontague]

6. I think it's because crafty real estate agents have been selling those follicles

On packing up and moving to the ears, nose, and back.

[lumberjack_jeff]

9. Seriously.

It's like the top of my head is a bad neighborhood or something.

[Herington]

8. Baldness

Hope for the hairless as reactivating follicle stem cells could cure baldness - http://baldness.webs.com - the researchers also found that the precursor fat cells were producing a platelet-derived growth factor — at 100 times the level of surrounding cells — that appeared to be kick-starting the follicles to grow hair. Injecting the growth factor into the skin of defective mice could trigger hair growth in 86% of follicles.