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September 2022 in “Advanced Healthcare Materials” Current methods can't fully recreate skin and its features, and more research is needed for clinical use.
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April 2021 in “Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology” New hair follicles could be created to treat hair loss.
110 citations,
April 2020 in “Advances in Wound Care” Nanotechnology shows promise for better chronic wound healing but needs more research.
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January 2020 in “PubMed” Adding insulin-like growth factor 1 and bone marrow-derived stem cells to a collagen-chitosan scaffold helps wounds heal faster and regrows hair follicles.
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August 2015 in “The FASEB Journal” Blocking the Wnt/β‐catenin pathway can speed up wound healing, reduce scarring, and improve cartilage repair.
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May 2017 in “InTech eBooks” Stem cells could improve hair growth and new treatments for baldness are being researched.
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April 2014 in “Experimental Dermatology” Wnt10b makes hair follicles bigger, but DKK1 can reverse this effect.
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January 2016 in “International Journal of Trichology” Sheep-derived factors improve human hair cell clustering, which may help hair growth.
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