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POTENTIAL CURE FOR BALDNESS

Scientists have discovered it helps orchestrate apop- activates cell division. How- with other important genes, require the regeneration
that a single chemical is tosis, the process of cell ever, too much of it causes it might be possible to acti- of hair follicles. Being able
key to controlling when hair death,” Wang said. apoptosis. vate follicle stem cells and to more precisely control
follicle cells divide, and when stimulate hair growth. levels of TGF-beta could
they die. This breakthrough As with many chemicals, it is If researchers can deter- also one-day cure baldness,
could not only lead to effec- the amount that makes the mine more precisely the Because many animals, which bothers millions of
tive treatment of baldness, difference in the outcome. If way TGF-beta activates including humans, possess people all over the world.
but ultimately speed up the cell produces a certain cell division, and how the skin covered with hair, per-
wound healing because quantity of TGF-beta, it chemical communicates fect wound healing would
follicles are a source of stem
cells.
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In response to wounds, the
liver and stomach regener-
ate themselves. However,
Wang’s team of researchers
studied hair follicles be-
cause they’re the only organ
in humans that regenerates
automatically and periodi-
cally, even without injury.
The scientists discovered
how TGF-beta, a type of
protein, controls the pro-
cess by which cells in hair
follicles, including stem cells,
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