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Posted on Mar 19, 2004, 7 a.m.
By Bill Freeman
Baldness impacts millions of men and women, but now a new scientific breakthrough is promising to restore those lost locks. Researchers say they have grown hair on laboratory mice using stem cells. The study used so-called "blank slate" stem cells taken from one animal and put into another. Researchers say their work proves human hair follicles contain the stem cells that give most people a full head of hair.
Baldness impacts millions of men and women, but now a new scientific breakthrough is promising to restore those lost locks.
Researchers say they have grown hair on laboratory mice using stem cells.
The study used so-called "blank slate" stem cells taken from one animal and put into another.
Researchers say their work proves human hair follicles contain the stem cells that give most people a full head of hair. They claim the procedure could be growing hair on human heads in five years from now.
The study is published by the journal "Nature Bio Technology."
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