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For some men, bald is beautiful. The iconic look may work for a few - especially celebrities - like the rugged Die Hard star Bruce Willis and Star Trek's Patrick Stewart.
For many though hair loss is no laughing matter.
Now researchers in America say they've uncovered a cure. An academic medical centre has found that hair follicles actually shrink, but don't disappear.
Dr George Cotsarelis, dermatology professor at Pennsylvania University, found the discovery hair-raising.
“What we found surprised us. The stem cells were present but they were not doing their job.” The discovery of invisible hair sounds too good to be true. But what does it mean?
“It really gives us hope that because the stem cells are present it lowers the bar for developing treatments that could activate the stem cells and get them to form a new hair follicle,” said Dr Cotsarelis. Treating these faulty stem cells means that, rather than just maintaining hair, we could soon regenerate hair.
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對一些男性來說，禿頂反而很好看。尤其像一些名人，如威利斯和帕特里克.斯圖爾特。
但是對于大多數人來說，禿發(fā)卻是件很嚴肅苦惱的事。
美國研究人員表示他們已經發(fā)現了相應的治療方法。某學術醫(yī)療中心研究發(fā)現，事實上那些禿發(fā)患者的毛囊并沒有消失，而只是收縮變小了。
賓夕法尼亞大學皮膚學教授George Cotsarelis認為該發(fā)現非常的令人詫異！
“我們的研究發(fā)現另我們自己都很震驚。干細胞存在但他們卻并沒有“盡職盡責”。‘隱藏的頭發(fā)’——這項發(fā)現聽起來真的是非常好！但這意味著什么呢？
Cotsarelis博士表示：“這給了我們希望，干細胞存在的事實可以降低‘為激活干細胞以使它們形成新毛囊’所要開展的治療工作。”治理這些有問題的干細胞意味著，我們不僅可以保養(yǎng)頭發(fā)，而且很快就可以再生頭發(fā)了。
