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This study explored the use of dexamethasone-loaded polymer hybrid nanoparticles in a xanthan gum hydrogel for treating alopecia areata, finding that freeze drying with sucrose influenced particle size, release, and permeation, but had no impact on cytotoxicity or anti-inflammatory efficacy in human keratinocytes.

This study demonstrates that MPM-FLIM multimodal imaging can effectively assess the delivery and dissolution of zinc pyrithione particles in human skin follicles using different application techniques.

This study demonstrated a validated UPLC method for analyzing finasteride in low-dose drug products, highlighting methanol content and flow rate as critical factors for method robustness and accuracy.

In this study, a bleaching protocol was developed to evaluate hair repair products, revealing that K18® and Olaplex® improve hair brightness and lightness, with distinct impacts on hair fiber properties.

The study suggests that integrin β1 is crucial for maintaining liver microstructure and its absence may promote fibrosis by disrupting hepatocyte-extracellular matrix interactions and increasing TGF-β secretion.

This review highlights the potential of microfluidic skin-on-a-chip models in skin research, emphasizing their ability to mimic human skin structure and improve control over cellular and molecular distribution compared to traditional in vitro models.

This review discusses the use of nanomaterials in cosmetics, highlighting their benefits like enhanced stability and skin penetration, while also noting potential health risks and the role of natural ingredients in formulations.

This review highlights that synthetic biodegradable polymers like PVA, PCL, PLA, PLGA, PU, and PEO/PEG can address the limitations of natural polymers in wound healing, offering improved mechanical properties and slower degradation, thereby enhancing their application as wound dressings.

This review highlighted recent advances in nanocarrier-based topical delivery systems for skincare, emphasizing their potential to enhance ingredient stability, penetration, and targeted release while addressing specific pathophysiological skin concerns.

This study created new methods to test how well hair care products clean and protect hair from pollution, finding a wide range of effectiveness among different formulas in removing pollutants and preventing their deposit on hair fibers.

This study optimized efinaconazole spanlastic nanovesicles using risk management and multivariate analysis for potential transungual delivery to treat onychomycosis, achieving improved drug permeability and dissolution efficiency.

This review discusses recent advances in developmental tissue engineering for regenerating ectodermal appendages like teeth and glands, emphasizing biomaterial selection and cell culture strategies, but reports no new experimental results.

In this study, certain cysteine residues in Romney sheep wool fibers were labeled more often during stretching tests, particularly under wet conditions, suggesting variability in their disulfide bond contributions to fiber mechanics depending on hydration.

This review explores the potential of cell-mediated drug delivery systems in dermatology, highlighting their ability to target inflamed or diseased skin while discussing applications in diseases like atopic dermatitis and melanoma, along with challenges such as immunogenicity and manufacturing.

This study explored a new dutasteride nanocarrier for alopecia therapy, concluding that ingredient concentration is key to achieving the optimal particle size, stability, and skin permeation for extended drug release.

In this study, ketoconazole-loaded transferosomes were developed and demonstrated improved hair growth compared to a commercially available ketoconazole product, with the formulation showing enhanced drug penetration and minimal skin irritation in vivo.

This study observed that hair properties vary by ethnicity, influenced by genetic, environmental, and cultural factors, and noted that ethnicity-dependent differences in surface charge and other properties warrant further investigation.

This study describes a method to extract and characterize keratin particles from human hair, finding they can encapsulate the anticancer drug Paclitaxel with significant efficiency, releasing it in a pH-dependent manner potentially beneficial for targeted cancer treatment.

This narrative review concluded that lifestyle factors such as nutrition, sleep, exercise, and social interactions play key roles in improving skin health and well-being with aging, and suggests social media campaigns could promote beneficial lifestyle changes in the future.

This study validated a new test method using a patented chamber to measure the efficacy of a sunscreen in reducing carbon black particle adhesion, with a 55% reduction observed on treated skin in a group of 22 women.

This study explored the potential of human hair keratin as a filtration material, finding that it may effectively absorb the pollutants diclofenac and perfluorobutanesulfonate. The researchers reported significant binding affinities through molecular simulations, supporting further investigation into keratin's use for water purification.

This review examines the challenges of cell engraftment in regenerative medicine and discusses potential strategies to improve the efficacy of cell-based therapies, including cell-free regenerative approaches.

This review examines the interaction between the extracellular matrix and immune cells in skin diseases and evaluates advanced therapies that target involved molecular mechanisms, reporting no new clinical findings.

This study observed that smaller polymeric submicron particles provided more efficient selective drug delivery to inflamed skin in a mouse model, enhancing therapeutic effects while reducing systemic adverse effects.

This review discusses recent advances in scarless wound healing research, focusing on the roles of mechanobiology and immunology, and reports no new clinical results; the authors highlight the potential of next-generation human skin equivalents in understanding these mechanisms.

This study observed that fetal hair follicle melanocytes varied in morphology and development stages, with melanosomes undergoing degradation into irregular pigment particles within keratinocytes.

This review explores the potential of multifunctional bioscaffolds in skin tissue engineering, highlighting their successful biological performance in vitro and in vivo animal models, while also identifying the demand for technological advancements to improve wound healing applications in clinical settings.

This review examines how incorporating various polymers and active ingredients into polyurethane dressings can enhance their properties and adaptability for better wound repair and regeneration, suggesting a promising direction for developing advanced functional dressings.

3D-oxy exosomes may significantly boost hair growth, offering new treatment options for hair loss.

This study found that SARS-CoV-2 hijacks the host factor IGF2BP1 to stabilize its RNA and enhance translation, and identified Cepharanthine and Trifluoperazine as potential treatments against the virus.