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| Hair Care Advice - Hair Loss Explained |
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Hair Loss a Problem?Hair loss! Take heart -- while a cure for the perennial problem of hair loss is still some time away, one Massey University scientist has at least given us a better understanding of how the precious fibre actually works.
Head of the university's Institute of Fundamental Sciences David Parry and a team of Marsden hair loss researchers have made a breakthrough in working out the molecular arrangement of hair.
Working in tandem with the US National Institute of Health in Washington DC, Prof Parry found the way that the molecules in hair stabilise and join together to form a strong fibre and how mutation can have disastrous effects on the molecules that can lead to hair loss.
"The molecules rearrange themselves as the hair grows. This is a unique and unexpected feature of hair," he said.
"The structure changes to allow many more bonds to form, helping to stabilise the molecules and making hair exceptionally strong as a result."
The next move would be to build a model of the hair fibre at atomic level to make it easier for researchers to come up with solutions to a raft of hair loss problems.
"It's just like in the pharmaceutical industry. You have to know how a disease works and how it is made up before you can come up with a drug that you can attach to it."
Prof Parry said the spectre of hair loss like the male pattern baldness would still hang heavily over men but at least scientists now had a starting point from which to look for answers.
His interest in hair began when he made some interesting discoveries when doing his doctorate studying wool fibres in Australia.
"Hair has virtually the same structure as wool, and I was involved in work at a wool research lab. Wool was much more important then that it is now and there are very few involved in wool research now; there are more doing hair loss studies. As disposable income has increased hair loss is now a lucrative business for pharmaceutical companies." |
| Last Updated on Tuesday, 30 March 2010 11:37 |
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