Hair follicles, like bacteria, don’t just live individual lives. They form communities, close-knit or otherwise, depending on the fullness of their molecular communications. When molecules are ...

If there's a cure for male pattern baldness, it might hurt a little. Scientists have demonstrated that by plucking 200 hairs in a specific pattern and density, they can induce up to 1,200 replacement ...

The treatment for hair loss may be through plucking hairs in a specific pattern and density, found researchers at the University of Southern California. This counterintuitive approach uses the ...

They tested the hypothesis on mice, plucking 200 follicles -- one by one-in a variety of patterns. The team found that establishing a circular plucking area of a diameter between three and five ...

Plucking hairs in a precise pattern can make even more pop up in their place, a US study suggests. Playing with the density of hair removed altered how serious an injury the body recognised and in ...