A little change in the cycle that produces hair could tip the scales toward either healthy, continued hair growth or slow, ...

Japanese scientists discover the third cell type needed for lab-grown hair follicles that produce real hair with 100% ...

Unlike normal skin, scar tissue doesn't contain any hair follicles. New research now indicates that when such follicles are transplanted into scar tissue, that tissue changes to become much more like ...

In a new study involving three volunteers, skin scars began to behave more like uninjured skin after they were treated with hair follicle transplants. The scarred skin harbored new cells and blood ...

Hair may grow in a completely different way than scientists once believed. Instead of being pushed out from the root, new ...

Folks develop gray hair as they age because color-producing stem cells become "stuck" and disabled in the hair follicle, new animal research contends. Hair color is controlled by melanocyte stem cells ...