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If clumps of your hair start to fall out from a common form of baldness, a new review of existing research unfortunately offers little comfort.

A Columbia University Medical Center research team has discovered a new gene involved in determining hair texture in humans. The team's genetic analysis demonstrated that mutations in a gene, known as P2RY5, cause hereditary "woolly hair" — hair that is coarse, dry, tightly curled and sparse.

A healthy individual loses around a hundred hairs a day. Nothing to worry about as long as they are constantly replaced and the losses occur evenly around the whole scalp. But when hair loss goes well beyond this level it can become quite a problem for those affected – not only superficially in terms of looks but also psychologically.

There is a close relationship between infection outbreaks on teeth and the presence of alopecia areata or localized alopecia, a type of hair loss which has an unknown origin. Alopecia areata starts with bald patches on the scalp, and sometimes elsewhere on the body.

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Mouse mammary glands deficient in PPARг, a nuclear receptor that regulates the storage of fat, produce toxic milk that causes inflammation and baldness in suckling pups, report scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies.

Everybody loses their hair. In some cases, alopecia or baldness occurs in a rather slow way; people get old yet still have some hair to be done by a hairdresser on a regular basis. Others start going bald or having thinning hair in their early twenties. What are the causes of alopecia?

The bald look may have been made fashionable by a raft of sporting and entertainment stars, but for many men a receding hairline is still a source of anxiety. But hope of a cure for baldness has arrived in the form of a US study, which shows for the first time that hair can be regrown.

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have found that hair follicles in adult mice regenerate by re-awakening genes once active only in developing embryos. These findings provide unequivocal evidence for the first time that, like other animals such as newts and salamanders, mammals have the power to regenerate. These findings are published in the May 17 issue of Nature.