GADGETS - NEWS
2008.10.25
Good news for those who still want hair. Researchers have found a second genetic risk factor for baldness.
Two groups, working independently, found variants on chromosome 20 that are associated with male pattern baldness--the most common cause of hair loss in men, and the root of a multimillion-dollar industry devoted to protecting, nurturing, and transplanting hair.
A third report identifies a new kind of stem cell in the hair follicles of mice that, when transplanted onto the skin of hairless rodents, causes the animals to sprout tufts of hair.
Genetic tests, the researchers say, could identify people who are likely to be troubled by a receding hairline and give them the benefit of early treatment, before they're forced to smear sunblock on their naked scalps.
Patrick Dempsey on the other hand, doesn't look bad with, or without that Mc Sexy Hair Do.The Baldness Gene - TR
