September 2021 in “CRC Press eBooks” This article discusses features, genetics, and diagnostic challenges of central centrifugal cicatricial alopecia in African American women but reports no new clinical results.
In this study, researchers observed that estrogen and its receptors play a crucial role in hair growth and control, with notable sex-dependent differences in human scalp hair follicles.
November 2023 in “Materials Today Bio” In this study, researchers developed a novel temperature-sensitive biopolymer-based drug delivery system that enhanced the transdermal delivery of ISX9, a neurogenesis inducer, resulting in more effective hair follicle regrowth and signal pathway activation in vivo compared to traditional topical application.
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December 2011 in “Journal of Neuroscience” This study demonstrated that stress-derived neurosteroid THDOC shifts from inhibiting to activating the HPA axis under stress, presenting potential therapeutic targets for stress-related disorders.
January 2017 in “Qucosa (Saxon State and University Library Dresden)” This study found that plasma protein binding significantly contributes to the shifts in glucocorticosteroid concentration ratios among blood, saliva, and hair, challenging prior assumptions about enzyme inactivation as the main factor.
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November 2012 in “Journal of the National Cancer Institute” This study found that FLCN deficiency in mice muscles led to increased mitochondrial biogenesis and a metabolic shift towards oxidative phosphorylation, with a similar advantage observed in FLCN-null kidney cancer cells.
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January 2004 in “Physiological Research” In this study, researchers reported that about one-third of men with premature alopecia displayed hormonal shifts and higher insulin resistance, resembling the prevalence pattern of PCOS in women.
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January 2005 in “Media Asia” This study reports that since the early 1990s, China's advertising and consumer culture have rapidly transformed, with Chinese brands now leading the market alongside significant cultural shifts toward consumerism and materialism.
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July 1997 in “Current problems in dermatology” This article reviews 25 years of hair restoration advancements, highlighting the shift towards techniques that emphasize naturalness and undetectability, and reports no new research findings.
January 2024 in “Wiadomości Lekarskie” This research by Dr. Lester Fehmi suggests that exercises to shift attention from focused to dispersed may enhance alpha wave synchronization in the brain, potentially reducing pain perception.
January 2024 in “Wiadomości Lekarskie” This study highlights the transformation in aortic aneurysm treatment over the last 30 years, noting the shift from open surgery to endovascular methods, which reduce surgical risks and improve outcomes.
April 2026 in “Beni-Suef University Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences” In this bibliometric analysis, researchers observed that precision medicine approaches, such as individualized interventions and biomarker-guided subtyping, are increasingly integrated into prediabetes research, highlighting shifts toward using multi-omics data and artificial intelligence for patient stratification and prevention strategies.
January 2024 in “ARC Journal of Dermatology” This study reviews international findings on how COVID-19 affected dermatology visits, noting varied impacts with some regions experiencing persistent declines, and examines expected shifts in patient demographics, including fewer visits from older and minority patients with chronic conditions after the pandemic onset.
January 2021 in “arXiv (Cornell University)” This study found that self-supervised pretraining significantly improves accuracy in medical image classifiers for dermatology and chest X-ray tasks, outperforming supervised baselines and showing robustness to distribution shifts with limited labeled data.
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January 2022 in “Turkiye Klinikleri Journal of Dermatology” This study observed shifts in dermatological disease frequencies amid early COVID-19 pandemic lifestyle changes, noting significant increases in urticaria, drug eruptions, and alopecia areata, while bacterial and fungal infections decreased.
February 2026 in “Plastic and Aesthetic Research” This narrative review examines advancements in regenerative aesthetic medicine, focusing on injectable modalities like PRP, polynucleotides, and exosomes, but highlights the need for more robust evidence and standardization in clinical applications.
January 2024 in “Wiadomości Lekarskie” This study discusses the need for better organization and specialized services in Alzheimer's prevention, focusing on modifiable factors like hearing impairment, vascular risk, and lifestyle habits, and highlights challenges and opportunities from the two-year experience of Brain Health services at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden.
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March 2006 in “Seminars in Cutaneous Medicine and Surgery” This review explains how modern hair transplantation techniques use smaller, natural hair follicle groupings to create a more natural appearance without reporting new clinical results.
October 2020 in “M/C Journal” This article explores how societal views on "freaks" have shifted from congenital anomalies to cosmetic surgery-induced appearances, with the authors suggesting this may reflect changing beauty norms and the commodification of uniqueness.
June 2002 in “Seminars in Cutaneous Medicine and Surgery” Hair transplantation has improved to more natural-looking results and is complemented by effective non-surgical treatments, with ongoing research into hair follicle cloning.
January 2001 in “Current problems in dermatology” This review discusses the evolution of hair transplantation techniques and provides guidelines for determining suitable candidates for surgery, but reports no new clinical results.
June 2026 in “International Journal on Science and Technology” This source redefines anti-aging medicine as "precision healthspan pharmacology," suggesting that rather than just treating diseases or accepting aging, pharmacology should focus on expanding functional capacity across various health domains, while emphasizing the importance of fundamental physiological and psychosocial health factors.
December 2025 in “Ekonomia/Acta Universitatis Wratislaviensis. Ekonomia” In this case study, researchers observed that demand for trichology services among customers aged 60 and older is increasing more rapidly than overall company revenue at the Hairmitage Clinic, suggesting a promising market in this demographic.
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July 2012 in “PLoS Genetics” This study identified a 69 bp deletion in the KRT75 gene as the cause of the frizzle feather trait in chickens, affecting feather curling.
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June 2018 in “Frontiers in Physiology” This study found that acellular dermal matrix scaffolds may facilitate full-thickness skin wound healing by promoting a pro-regenerative immune response through M2 macrophage polarization via the Lamtor1 pathway.
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January 2016 in “Georg Thieme Verlag eBooks” The document concludes that ideal facial proportions are guided by specific measurements and symmetry to enhance beauty, but individual characteristics must be considered.
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May 2002 in “Journal of Investigative Dermatology” This study characterized a new human keratin, hK6irs1, specifically found in the inner root sheath of hair follicles, which suggests its role in the structural integrity and guidance of growing hair shafts.
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September 2020 in “Cell Metabolism” This study highlights that the mammalian target of rapamycin complex 2 (mTORC2)-Akt signaling axis is essential for hair follicle stem cells to return to their niche and regenerate effectively by regulating metabolic pathways.
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May 1994 in “Journal of Investigative Dermatology” This study identified a novel gene, hacl-1, that is specifically expressed in the hair follicles of ICR mouse skin and is associated with their active state.
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May 2019 in “PLOS genetics” This study reports that compound heterozygous loss-of-function mutations in the HEPHL1 gene in a child were associated with abnormal hair and cognitive issues, linking altered ferroxidase activity to hair disorders.