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Article: Researchers Identify Signals That Cause Hair Follicles to Sprout.
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- March 19, 2003
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Byline: Howard Hughes Medical Institute
CHEVY CHASE, Md., March 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- The delicate interplay of two chemical signals coaxes stem cells into becoming hair follicles, according to new research by scientists at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at The Rockefeller University.
The research has implications for understanding hair growth and hair-follicle development, and it may also help explain how diverse structures, such as teeth and lungs, are formed or how some forms of skin cancer develop.
In an article published in the March 20, 2003, issue of the journal Nature, researchers led by HHMI investigator Elaine Fuchs at The ...