With millions all over the world suffering from or experiencing baldness, you’d think that a cure would have been discovered by now. Unfortunately, it took many years of research in order for some promising solutions to appear. Let’s take a look at some of the new cures for baldness that may just be an important breakthrough in the war against hair loss.

Stem cells

Stem cells are still controversial but they seem to offer a new cure for baldness. Stem cells were transplanted to bald spots in mice and later grown to become hair follicles. Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania believe it could be the beginning of a very promising future for the problem of hair loss. Further research is being proposed to help identify certain genes that trigger new hair growth in humans.

Allowing the body to regenerate on its own

This method is not for the queasy but the recent discovery from a study at the School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania is showing proof that hair is capable of regenerating itself.

The study involved mice that had deep wounds on the skin, all of which were introduced by the researchers. Wounds of a certain size allowed new hairs to form. According to the scientists, this imitated some of the changes that appeared in the embryonic development of hair follicles.

The results of the study showed that wounds reactivate the genes that are responsible for development of the hair. The method is rather crude and still in its early stages but it seems to present a new cure for baldness that, interestingly enough, had been proposed but rejected about 50 years ago.

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