{"id":101445,"date":"2020-01-27T13:05:13","date_gmt":"2020-01-27T21:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/going-gray-isnt-a-one-way-trip-uab-researcher-exploring-ways-to-rejuvenate-gray-hairs"},"modified":"2020-01-27T13:05:13","modified_gmt":"2020-01-27T21:05:13","slug":"going-gray-isnt-a-one-way-trip-uab-researcher-exploring-ways-to-rejuvenate-gray-hairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/going-gray-isnt-a-one-way-trip-uab-researcher-exploring-ways-to-rejuvenate-gray-hairs","title":{"rendered":"Going gray isn\u2019t a one-way trip? UAB researcher exploring ways to \u2018rejuvenate\u2019 gray hairs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/going-gray-isnt-a-one-way-trip-uab-researcher-exploring-ways-to-rejuvenate-gray-hairs.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Grey hair seems to be driven by stem cell exhaustion, one of the suggested reasons we age. One researcher believes we can turn back the clock on greying hair.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" role=\"figure\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uab.edu\/reporter\/images\/rep_melissa_harris_550px.jpg\" alt=\"rep melissa harris 550px\" width=\"400\"><\/p>\n<p> Melissa Harris\u2019s research points to a new paradigm for hair graying. \u201cWe thought that once you go gray the stem cells are all lost \u2014 there\u2019s no going back,\u201d Harris said. \u201cBut presumably they can be reactivated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Molecular biology is not usually the kind of science you can do with the naked eye. Sure enough, Melissa Harris, Ph.D., runs a lab that leans into CRISPR gene-editing tools, single-cell sequencing studies and network-analysis algorithms. But all she needs is a glance to diagnose the state of your melanocyte stem cells.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grey hair seems to be driven by stem cell exhaustion, one of the suggested reasons we age. One researcher believes we can turn back the clock on greying hair. Melissa Harris\u2019s research points to a new paradigm for hair graying. \u201cWe thought that once you go gray the stem cells are all lost \u2014 there\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":370,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-information-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101445","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\/370"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}