Protein That Calms Waking Hair Follicles Could Lead to Alopecia Treatment

Image: Alopecia Areata. Image credit: George Henry Fox, A.M., M.D. – Photographic Atlas of the Diseases of the Skin, Vol. 1 – 1905. Wikimedia. Public Domain. Article by David Nield. ScienceAlert – April 1, 2025. Research article: Nature Communications.

A new study has identified a protein that appears to be essential for hair growth and hair follicle protection. Called MCL‑1, it could potentially be targeted by treatments for certain kinds of baldness such as alopecia. Led by a team from the Duke‑NUS Medical School in Singapore and the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research in Australia, researchers found that when MCL-1 production was blocked in mice, the animals lost their hair later in life. […]

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