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This announcement explains the Fellow designation for hair restoration surgeons meeting specific educational criteria, without reporting new research findings.

In this case report, researchers observed that a female patient with severe hidradenitis suppurativa experienced complete resolution of her lesions after starting intramuscular exogenous testosterone as part of gender transition, suggesting its potential role in disease remission when other treatments were ineffective.

This article suggests that testosterone therapy might be considered if other treatments fail, but emphasizes discussing potential risks and benefits with patients before prescribing.

In this systematic review, researchers reported that various types of laser therapy effectively treat hidradenitis suppurativa at different severity stages, with each laser offering specific benefits such as lesion removal, inflammation reduction, and improved quality of life.

This study aimed to estimate the value of urine prostate specific antigen (uPSA) as a marker for benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) but reported no new clinical findings.

In this report, a 77-year-old woman treated for essential thrombocytosis with low-dose hydroxyurea experienced an unexpected change in hair color from gray to dark brown after 20 weeks, highlighting a potential aesthetic side effect of the drug, in addition to therapeutic effects.

This study found no qualitative skin differences during development between mutant hairless USP mice and BALB/c mice, except for enlarged cysts in the hairless strain.

This study found that laser hair removal effectively reduces disease severity in hidradenitis suppurativa with minimal side effects, likely due to the destruction of hair follicle units.

This review summarizes 15 years of clinical and experimental research advancements in hidradenitis suppurativa, highlighting its recognition as a uniquely healable inflammatory skin disease but reports no new clinical results.

This article discusses the challenges in treating hidradenitis suppurativa, highlighting that adalimumab is currently the only FDA-approved treatment, and reports no clinical results.

This review discusses wound healing options after skin excision and laser treatments for hidradenitis suppurativa and reports no new clinical results.

This study found that an optimized hydrogel combined with human umbilical cord-mesenchymal stem cells accelerated wound healing in diabetic mice by improving cell adhesion and reducing inflammation.

In this study, young female medical students at King Saud University reported a higher prevalence of physician-diagnosed PCOS compared to similar Western populations, and hirsutism was notably associated with the condition, highlighting the need for early screening and health education.

This project by the International Society of Hair Restoration Surgery aims to define best practices in hair restoration surgery but does not report new clinical findings.

This article reviews the challenges in studying keratin proteins and emphasizes the potential of modern proteomic techniques to advance their research, but it reports no new findings.

This study suggests that the mechanical robustness of hair may be enhanced by the binding interactions of keratin-associated proteins, particularly KAP8.1, with intermediate filament proteins.

This study found that in Merino-Southdown cross sheep, the presence of the C variant of the KRTAP26-1 gene was associated with higher wool quality, including increased wool yield and staple length.

In this study, the identification of a novel KAP gene in sheep, named KRTAP36-1, was associated with increased prickle factor in wool, suggesting its potential as a genetic marker for breeding purposes.

This study found that the promoter region of the sheep KRTAP11-1 gene drives specific transcriptional activity in wool follicles, suggesting it may regulate hair keratinocyte specificity.

This case report describes two patients with trichothiodystrophy who exhibited a different pattern of hair protein composition changes, suggesting a subgroup of TTD characterized by partial loss of high-sulfur proteins without significant alteration in their amino acid composition.

This study identified eight alleles of the caprine KAP13-3 gene in cashmere goats, which could influence gene expression and cashmere fiber characteristics.

This study identified a new ovine KRTAP21-1 gene variant in sheep, with wool yield affected by the variant, suggesting its potential as a genetic marker for improving wool production.

In this study on Chinese Tan sheep, researchers discovered a variant of the KRTAP19-5 gene associated with decreased curvature of fine wool fibres, highlighting potential genetic markers for improving wool quality.

This study found no significant proteomic differences in hair samples across racial or geometric groups in a culturally diverse South African cohort, highlighting the limited value of racial classification in precision medicine.

This study found that genetic variation in the KRTAP21-2 gene among crossbred Merino lambs was associated with differences in wool traits, particularly mean staple length.

In this study, nucleotide sequence variation in the KRTAP13-3 gene was associated with changes in heterotypic hair fibre diameter variation in Chinese Tan sheep.

This study reports that KRTAP-like proteins, which resemble keratin-associated proteins found in mammals, are also present in the cornified teeth of various lamprey species, suggesting these proteins may serve similar functions in skin appendages across different vertebrates despite independent evolutionary origins.

This study analyzed the genetic variations of the KAP20-1 gene in Chinese Tan sheep lambs and found that the G variant was linked to an increased mean fibre curvature in their fine wool fibres, potentially influencing breeding strategies for this wool trait.

This study identified a new gene in sheep, KRTAP36-2, discovering variants associated with wool yield. Variations in this gene were linked to the efficiency of fleece conversion from greasy to clean, which may enhance wool production.

In this study, researchers successfully cloned the KAP24.1 gene from sheep to analyze its expression in skin and hair follicles, finding that Mountain-type Hetian sheep showed the highest levels of expression and that androgen concentration significantly influenced KAP24.1 protein expression.