Hair
In an experiment that holds out hope for remedying baldness, a
team from Durham University in the U.K. succeeded recently in
getting the hair of researcher Dr. Colin Jahoda to grow on the
inner arm of his wife, Dr. Amanda Reynolds. As reported in
Nature (11/4/99), cells from Jahoda's hair follicles
were transplanted without rejection into Reynolds' skin, whose
own cells triggered the hair growth following instructions
from the transplanted cells.
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