Bedsores and bald hides: Novel roles revealed for a 'scaffolding' protein
A protein long thought to provide only mechanical support for keeping cells and tissues from literally falling apart turns out to have much wider utility. In a pair of reports, the protein K17 has been found to also influence wound healing and maintain the structural integrity of hair follicles, according to Johns Hopkins researchers. The wound-healing work, published in the May 18 issue o...Baldwin backs funding for Midwest biotech incubator
Funding for the Midwest Biolink Incubator was included at the request of , D-Madison, in an appropriations bill passed Wednesday in the House of Representa...Congresswoman Baldwin secures Federal Funds for UW-Rock County
MADISON, WI - U.S. Representative Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) has announced she has helped secure $100,000 in federal funding as part of the fiscal budget to the UW-Rock County campus. This earmark appropriation will be used to upgrade computers and lab equipment for students of the two-year college enrolled in nursing and other healthcare related fields. I know that UW-Rock County is a vital c...Balding gene may come from mother
Balding have long been accepted as a hereditary condition.// Researchers from Bonn University Clinic and others have found out the variety of gene that is responsible for this condition. Scientists have narrowed down this genetic variance to the gene for androgen receptor. One particular variety of this gene had been found more often in men who lose hair at a very early st...New Study Offers Hope For Balding Men
A single protein has helped bald mice to get fur on the body, says a new study that offers hope for balding men. Catherine C. Thompson and colleagues at Johns Hopkins University School// of Medicine in Maryland studied a gene known as Hairless, which encodes a protein that is essential for hair follicle regeneration. In humans and mice with mutations in the Hairless gene, h...Scientists Seek New Ways To Grow Hair On Bald Pates
Look around a crowd, and you'll see that lots of middle-aged men are losing their hair. What is science doing about this? Quite a bit, it turns out, reports AP. A British company, for example, says five guys are walking // around with hundreds more hairs than they had before, thanks to an early test of what's been called hair cloning. An American outfit hopes to start testing a simil...