{"id":146092,"date":"2022-09-11T11:22:18","date_gmt":"2022-09-11T16:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/scientists-are-working-on-a-gene-hacking-drug-that-could-treat-baldness"},"modified":"2022-09-11T11:22:18","modified_gmt":"2022-09-11T16:22:18","slug":"scientists-are-working-on-a-gene-hacking-drug-that-could-treat-baldness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/scientists-are-working-on-a-gene-hacking-drug-that-could-treat-baldness","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Are Working on a Gene-Hacking Drug That Could Treat Baldness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-are-working-on-a-gene-hacking-drug-that-could-treat-baldness2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Using gene modification techniques, a team of researchers have come up with a new treatment for balding, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/new-baldness-treatments\/\" class=\"\"><em>Wired<\/em> reports<\/a> \u2014 a condition experienced to varying degrees by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanhairloss.org\/men_hair_loss\/introduction.html\" class=\"\">two-thirds of American men by age 35<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The team, associated with the University of California, Irvine and a biotech company called Amplifica, believes they\u2019ve identified the signaling pathway that drive hair growth to find new ways to stop stem cells from giving up on producing hair follicles.<\/p>\n<p>Experiments with mice, as detailed in a <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/35777353\/\" class=\"\">new paper<\/a> published in the journal <em>Developmental Cell<\/em> last month, have been promising. The mice were genetically modified to have the hair growth signaling pathway turned on permanently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using gene modification techniques, a team of researchers have come up with a new treatment for balding, Wired reports \u2014 a condition experienced to varying degrees by two-thirds of American men by age 35. The team, associated with the University of California, Irvine and a biotech company called Amplifica, believes they\u2019ve identified the signaling pathway [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146092","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\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}