{"id":92788,"date":"2019-06-27T23:03:02","date_gmt":"2019-06-28T06:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/functional-hair-follicles-grown-from-stem-cells"},"modified":"2019-06-27T23:03:02","modified_gmt":"2019-06-28T06:03:02","slug":"functional-hair-follicles-grown-from-stem-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/functional-hair-follicles-grown-from-stem-cells","title":{"rendered":"Functional hair follicles grown from stem cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/functional-hair-follicles-grown-from-stem-cells.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists from Sanford Burnham Prebys have created natural-looking hair that grows through the skin using human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), a major scientific achievement that could revolutionize the hair growth industry. The findings were presented today at the annual meeting of the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) and received a Merit Award. A newly formed company, Stemson Therapeutics, has licensed the technology.<\/p>\n<p>More than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aad.org\/public\/diseases\/hair-and-scalp-problems\/hair-loss\">80 million men, women and children<\/a> in the United States experience <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/hair\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">hair<\/a> loss. Genetics, aging, childbirth, cancer treatment, burn injuries and medical disorders such as alopecia can cause the condition. Hair loss is often associated with emotional distress that can reduce quality of life and lead to anxiety and depression.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur new protocol described today overcomes key technological challenges that kept our discovery from real-world use,\u201d says Alexey Terskikh, Ph.D., an associate professor in Sanford Burnham Prebys\u2019 Development, Aging and Regeneration Program and the co-founder and chief scientific officer of Stemson Therapeutics. \u201cNow we have a robust, highly controlled method for generating natural-looking hair that grows through the skin using an unlimited source of human iPSC-derived dermal papilla cells. This is a critical breakthrough in the development of cell-based hair-loss therapies and the regenerative medicine field.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists from Sanford Burnham Prebys have created natural-looking hair that grows through the skin using human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), a major scientific achievement that could revolutionize the hair growth industry. The findings were presented today at the annual meeting of the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) and received a Merit Award. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,269,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-life-extension","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92788","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}