Cellular automaton model predicts how hair follicle stem cells regenerate
Wednesday, December 7, 2011 - 12:32
in Biology & Nature
Your hair -- or lack of hair -- is the result of a lifelong tug-of-war between activators that wake up, and inhibitors that calm, stem cells in every hair follicle on your body, according to Cheng-Ming Chuong, M.D., Ph.D., of the University of Southern California (USC).