A new imaging study challenges long-standing ideas about how hair grows and could lead to new treatments for hair loss. Scientists have discovered that human hair does not emerge because it is pushed ...

Achieving waist-length hair is a goal that many people pursue, but it requires more than just patience. To achieve this, a comprehensive understanding of hair biology and growth patterns is essential.

Decades of textbook biology may need to be rewritten after an imaging study has revealed that hair does not grow by being pushed out from the root, as previously believed—but is pulled upward by ...

Hair follicle stem cells (green) mobilize and expand (white) to help repair the skin’s barrier by differentiating into epidermal lineages (red). When a child falls off her bike and scrapes her knee, ...

Gray hair is a natural part of the aging process, but the timing and extent to which it occurs can vary significantly among individuals. While some may embrace their silver strands as a sign of wisdom ...

Seeing a clump of hair collect around the drain can feel alarming, even if nothing else about your hair seems different. Shower shedding often looks dramatic because hair accumulates all at once, but ...