Whether we call it white, gray or silver, hair that loses its original color is a sign of the passage of time that most of us would like to get rid of. And if we have long known how to hide them by painting them, now there is no way to block this natural process. But researchers at New York University appear to have discovered a mechanism at the cellular level that paves the way for a cure.
A central element of their discovery, published this Wednesday Nature, is the behavior of a melanocyte stem cell. Stem cells have the ability to endlessly self-renew and perform their specific function. In this case, some in the hair become melanocytes, cells that specialize in coloring the skin or hair by producing the pigment melanin.
Qi Sun’s (Grossman School of Medicine) team conducted…
Source: Le Figaro
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