11 A Scientific Remedy For Baldness?
People have long been waiting for a valid breakthrough on baldness, and now Penn University has studied a new Growth Factor (protein-Fgf9) that is showing promise. The scientists examined wounds and scars, where hair is known not to regrow. They questioned why an adult person has blocked hair follicle growth upon wound-healing while mice do not? It appears that adult mice have the ability to create more Fgf9 versus adult humans. When scientist reduced the Fgf9 response in mice, their hair regrowth in wounds was in fact inhibited.
Could the next step be treatments intended to compensate for the lack of Fgf9 to benefit hair regrowth in its entirety for humans? If studies continue perhaps baldness may be a thing of the past.
