Archive for October 2015
JAK Inhibitors Show Great Potential as a Hair Loss Treatment
Angela Christiano is up to it again, and the online hair world is very thankful. It was just a little over a year ago when the internet was ablaze with the news that Dr. Angela Christiano and her colleagues were studying the pharmaceutical drug ruxolitinib in cases of alopecia areata. Like tofacitinib, ruxolitinib is a…
Read MoreMicroCures for Hair, Follicum Trials: Weekly Thoughts 10/17/15
Cheers Everybody, It’s nice to be back here with you. Man, I do wish that hair regeneration news came more frequently, but I am happy to finally have some pertinent information to report upon. Wound Healing Company Interested in Hair Regeneration MicroCures, a biotech startup that is developing a siRNA technology for wound healing, has…
Read MoreNew MicroRNA Research Announced “mIR-22”
Reddit Revelations Last Wednesday morning, Zhengquan Yu of the China Agricultural University and Dr. Maksim Plikus of the University of California Irvine entertained an AMA (ask me anything) crowd on the social news website Reddit about their work involving hair follicles. Yu has just authored a paper titled “Post-transcriptional Regulation of Keratinocyte Progenitor Cell Expansion,…
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