Accidental Find May Lead To a Cure For Baldness

Posted by Soulskill on Monday April 4, 2011 @08:50AM from the make-it-so dept.

kkleiner writes "Science is full of stories in which great discoveries are made by accident: the discovery of radiation, the discovery of the universe's shape through x-ray detection, and now perhaps the cure for hair loss. At the time they returned to the cages to find that their bald mice had miraculously grown their hair back, the scientists at UCLA had no intention of curing baldness. Originally, theirs was in fact a study aimed at reducing the harmful affects of chronic stress. The unanticipated side effect of their treatment could prove a boon to balding men and women everywhere, not to mention to the drug company that delivers the cure to them."

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Re:Hair Loss? by rolfwind · 2011-04-04 09:10 · Score: 5, Funny

Ditch your palms and buy an iPhone or Android. It's not worth the bother cleaning them up.
Missing info... by thePowerOfGrayskull · 2011-04-04 09:11 · Score: 5, Informative

This has nothing to do with male pattern baldness despite the grand title. It only allows showed the hair loss specifically related to stress to be reversed -- which actually can also happen on its own if you remove the stressor(s) that are causing it to occur.
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/stress-and-hair-loss/AN01442