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This study found that dimethicone with high molecular weight improved hair surface characteristics, while dimethicone copolyol and amodimethicone enhanced manageability by reducing friction or aiding styling on damaged hair.

This study developed a double-network hydrogel using polyacrylamide and catechol-chitosan to enhance mechanical properties and promote drug release, aiding in inflammation regulation and wound healing for chronic wounds with challenging microenvironments.

This study examined different polymersome systems for topical finasteride delivery and found that chitosan-decorated C7 polymersomes may enhance skin retention and provide controlled drug release compared to non-decorated systems in laboratory settings.

This review highlights how cyclodextrin-polysaccharide hybrids can advance drug delivery and environmental cleanup by improving the solubility and stability of hydrophobic molecules, serving as promising platforms for biomedical applications and efficient sorbents for wastewater treatment.

This review discusses the potential of Pluronic F127-derived hydrogels for wound healing, examining their applications in various wound types and exploring underlying mechanisms and their interaction within the wound microenvironment.

This review explores how recombinant protein hydrogels, employing molecular engineering and crosslinking strategies, offer advanced applications in regenerative medicine by mimicking extracellular matrix dynamics and providing enhanced mechanical, environmental, and biological properties.

Scientists made nanoparticles from human hair proteins to improve drug delivery.

This thesis explores the synthesis and antiproliferative properties of phenylpropanoid sucrose esters, noting the absence of synthetic methods for most of this compound class due to their structural complexity.

This study developed and tested a new injectable hydrogel for chronic diabetic wounds, reporting significant improvements in wound healing through enhanced angiogenesis, epithelization, and reduction of inflammation and infection in animal models.

This study found that hair implantation using a biocompatible polyamide fiber resulted in very satisfactory improvements with a low rate of adverse events among 196 patients.

This study found that 'smart' peptide hydrogels improved wound healing in a rat model of partial thickness burns, achieving greater wound closure and faster debridement compared to a standard treatment.

This study reports that PRP-loaded bioactive fibrous hydrogels significantly enhance wound healing in diabetic foot ulcers by reducing inflammation and promoting tissue growth, with reduced administration frequency compared to standard PRP gel.

This review details how hydrogel composites play crucial roles in regenerative medicine, tissue engineering, and drug delivery systems, highlighting innovations in these applications and addressing challenges like bioactivity, biomechanical compatibility, and controlled drug release.

This review reports that biopolymer-based hydrogels show promise as wound dressings due to their biocompatibility, moisture retention, and ability to mimic the extracellular matrix, though challenges in mass production, safety, and clinical validation remain.

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 study introduced a novel scarless healing material called pgPE, made from a porous UHMWPE nanomembrane, and found that it promotes complete skin reconstruction and hair follicle regeneration by alleviating hypoxia and modulating immune responses to foster scar-free wound healing.

This study found that keratin hydrogels extracted from human hair showed potential as biodegradable and biocompatible filler materials, promoting angiogenesis and cell proliferation in rat models.

This review discusses nanoparticle-based topical delivery systems for treating skin diseases and presents no new clinical findings; it emphasizes natural polymer-based nanoparticles and future applications like targeted drug delivery.

The researchers reported that zinc carbonate nanoparticles stabilized with polyvinylpyrrolidone did not show local irritant or skin-resorptive effects in preclinical tests on rabbits and rats.

In this study, researchers developed a new Supported Ionic Liquid Phase palladium catalyst that showed effectiveness in aminocarbonylation reactions for synthesizing pharmaceutical compounds like CX-546 and a precursor of Finasteride, though results were sensitive to substrate variations and prompted palladium leaching concerns.

This study suggests that true binary and ternary inclusion complexes were formed between finasteride and 2-hydroxypropyl-ß-cyclodextrin, with or without the addition of specific polymers.

This study suggests that polymersomes decorated with chitosan improve the transdermal delivery of finasteride, providing an alternative drug delivery system with higher drug retention in the skin.

This review discusses PUFA-rich oil seeds and microencapsulation techniques but reports no new clinical results; the authors highlight microencapsulation as a promising method to protect PUFAs from oxidation.

This study found that non-toxic polycarboxylic acids can achieve satisfactory hair perming effects with limited strength loss, suggesting they have potential as a safer alternative to harmful perming chemicals.

This study reported that a novel hydrogel wound dressing, created using a Brachybotrys paridiformis polysaccharide derivative and chitosan, significantly accelerated wound healing and tissue regeneration in vivo, showing nearly complete healing by day 15 compared to controls.

This study found that 3-aminopropyltriethoxysilane penetrates hair fibers and improves the mechanical resistance of dry hair, addressing the needs for increased body in fine hair.

This study examined 3D-printed scaffolds coated with polydopamine and observed that they significantly enhanced osteogenesis and angiogenesis in vitro and in a rat cranium defect model, suggesting their potential for repairing large bone defects.

Adding keratin to a mix of cow hair and plant-based plastic makes it stronger.

In this study, dynamic hyaluronic acid hydrogels with properties like injectability and controlled degradation were developed to enhance healing and remodeling of diabetic wounds, achieving effects such as inflammation reduction, increased angiogenesis, and neovascularization, leading to complete wound healing.

This study found that human placenta extract may be a promising pulp-capping material, causing less intense chronic inflammation and thicker dentine bridge formation compared to mineral trioxide aggregate in dogs' teeth.