What if the secret to curing baldness has been hiding in your hair all along? University of Virginia School of Medicine ...

UVA’s Dr. Lu Q. Le and his team have identified a previously overlooked stem cell population in the upper and middle sections ...

Figure 1 shows the anatomy of a normal anagen follicle. In anagen, the scalp follicles reach into the subcutaneous fat and the hair is produced by rapidly dividing keratinocytes within the ...

Hair follicle (yellow arrow) and epidermis were derived from EGFP-labeled PSC. p63: stem cell marker, DAPI: nucleus, KRT14: differentiated keratinocyte marker Scale bars, 20 µm.

Dog whiskers are longer and thicker than regular hairs, and whisker follicles are ... though whiskers and hair are made of the same kind of cells, dog whisker anatomy is different from normal ...

In Part I of the review (July/August 2004), the anatomy of hair follicles, the diagnostic approach to diseases leading to hair loss, and nonscarring alopecias were discussed. In this article (Part ...