If we could reactivate these follicles, we’d basically have a solution for hair loss — and this is where dermal papilla comes ...

The cells at the heart of this study are known as dermal papilla cells, which live in hair follicles and help determine how fast, thick and long hair grows. This role has placed dermal papilla ...

This surrounds the outside of the hair follicles and has long been known to play a key role in regenerating the dermal papilla at the base of the hair follicle, which is crucial to its growth.

Hair growth is regulated by a small cluster of hair-specific fibroblasts, the dermal papilla. But exactly how dermal papilla forms has remained elusive until now. In a recent study professor Marja ...

We may now be a hair’s breadth away from a cure for baldness. For the first time, new human hairs have been coaxed into growing from specialised skin cells that can be multiplied in number to ...

“This process is controlled by a specific group of very specialised cells at the base of the hair follicle called Dermal Papilla cells and they determine the thickness and length of the hair ...

But now scientists in the US have coaxed human pluripotent stem cells - the type which can become anything - into dermal papilla cells, which regulate hair follicle formation, thickness ...