Posted on 03/05/2024 1:25:02 PM PST by Red Badger
A gel of tiny keratin spheres has been found to promote hair follicle growth. Given that our bodies naturally produce keratin, the research highlights the potential application of using keratin microspheres as a safe and effective hair-growth treatment.
Keratin is added to shampoos and conditioners to strengthen and improve the appearance of hair. We also produce the protein, which does the same thing – it keeps hair, skin, and nails healthy and strong. Given their biocompatibility, keratin-based nanoparticles have been explored as carriers for anti-cancer, antimicrobial and wound-healing drugs.
The skin’s top layer, or epidermis, is a barrier to penetration, which is both good and bad. While it’s a barrier against pathogens and chemicals, that barrier can stop therapeutic agents from entering. Hair follicles, however, present a potential pathway to enter the skin’s deeper layers. In a new study, researchers from the University of Tsukuba, Japan, created a gel made of tiny spheres of water-soluble keratin that penetrated the hair follicle to regrow hair in mice.
A gel of tiny keratin spheres has been found to promote hair follicle growth. Given that our bodies naturally produce keratin, the research highlights the potential application of using keratin microspheres as a safe and effective hair-growth treatment.
Keratin is added to shampoos and conditioners to strengthen and improve the appearance of hair. We also produce the protein, which does the same thing – it keeps hair, skin, and nails healthy and strong. Given their biocompatibility, keratin-based nanoparticles have been explored as carriers for anti-cancer, antimicrobial and wound-healing drugs.
The skin’s top layer, or epidermis, is a barrier to penetration, which is both good and bad. While it’s a barrier against pathogens and chemicals, that barrier can stop therapeutic agents from entering.
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better late than never, I suppose.
Half the planet trying to get rid of hair while the other half is trying to grow it.
The mice all look pretty furry to me.
“A gel of tiny keratin spheres has been found to promote hair follicle growth.”
Even if 90% of it has fallen out?
Big deal. I have tons of hair....I’m looking for a way to make it naturally dark again, instead of gray.
And this time we mean it
“The years passed, mankind became stupider at a frightening rate. Some had high hopes the genetic engineering would correct this trend in evolution, but sadly the greatest minds and resources where focused on conquering hair loss and prolonging erections.”
-Idiocracy
As we age, gray hair makes the face look younger than dark hair.
I’m going to ask for grey, orange and white follicles to be inserted all over my body so I can look like my calico kitten.
thanks!
“I’m going to ask for grey, orange and white follicles to be inserted all over my body so I can look like my calico kitten.”
Calicos are all female!
I see what you are saying. People that dye their hair really dark do have a really older looking face.
Yes. Gray hair softens the appearance of age in the face.
On men, it also looks handsome and lends more ‘gravitas’.
You can have the occasional male calico.
But they’re rare, usually sterile, and often afflicted with chromosomal abnormailites.
Or for some of us, we’re trying to get rid of hair where we don’t want it and grow it where we do want it.
One of my neighbors who’s 74, bald and 6’3” said he grew through his...
With all the successes in mice we hear about, mice have to be the healthiest and most disease free organism on the planet.
...or have the potential to be.
Unfortunately darkening hair is much tougher, impossible even, than regrowing lost hair.
Damn. I just moved everything to my ears, neck, and nose.
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