{"id":100115,"date":"2019-12-24T18:59:28","date_gmt":"2019-12-25T02:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/hair-growth-finding-could-make-baldness-optional"},"modified":"2019-12-24T18:59:28","modified_gmt":"2019-12-25T02:59:28","slug":"hair-growth-finding-could-make-baldness-optional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/hair-growth-finding-could-make-baldness-optional","title":{"rendered":"Hair growth finding could make baldness \u2018optional\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hair-growth-finding-could-make-baldness-optional3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The best way to avoid baldness is to stop hair from falling out in the first place. Now, researchers say a new hair growth discovery might help men keep their locks for a lifetime.<\/p>\n<p>The new insight involves a structure lying within the <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/hair+follicle\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">hair follicle<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur major discovery is a previously unknown smooth muscle that surrounds hair follicles and is called the dermal sheath,\u201d explained lead researcher Dr. Michael Rendl. He\u2019s associate director of the Black Family Stem Cell Institute at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, in New York City.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The best way to avoid baldness is to stop hair from falling out in the first place. Now, researchers say a new hair growth discovery might help men keep their locks for a lifetime. The new insight involves a structure lying within the hair follicle. \u201cOur major discovery is a previously unknown smooth muscle that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}