When people go bald, hair follicles (the tube-like pores that surround the root and strand of a hair) don’t disappear, they shrink. Herein lies the key to a long-lasting treatment for hair loss.

Hair growth is regulated by a small cluster of hair-specific fibroblasts, the dermal papilla. But exactly how dermal papilla forms has remained elusive until now. In a recent study, researchers ...

This role has placed dermal papilla cells front and center in much of the effort to develop new treatments for hair loss, and research demonstrating how they could be produced from stem cells or ...

The dermal papilla cells signal to the stem cells when it is time to create a new hair shaft, and the older hair shaft is disposed of. But sometimes this communication breaks down, according to ...

The study represents the first step toward the development of a cell-based treatment for people with hair loss. ... a protocol that coaxed human pluripotent stem cells to become dermal papilla cells.

Microenvironmental reprogramming by three-dimensional culture enables dermal papilla cells to induce de novo human hair-follicle growth; Claire A. Higgins, James C. Chen, Jane E. Cerise, Colin A ...

Using a new technique to harvest dermal papillae from humans, the researchers cloned the human papilla cells before transplanting them between layers of human skin taken from newborn foreskins ...

These dermal papillae create our fingerprints, among other things. For the experiments, the researchers used mice cells to make up for the lack of human ones. “When a person loses hair, they ...

“Once those human dermal papilla cells generated hair follicles in mice, father and son realized that they had, potentially, an attractive commercial opportunity.” Hamilton joined Alexey ...

Hair growth is regulated by a small cluster of hair-specific fibroblasts, the dermal papilla. But exactly how dermal papilla forms has remained elusive until now. In a recent study Marja Mikkola’s ...