Scientists unknowingly found a way to break the baldness

Sometimes during the research process, scientists unknowingly find a miracle that does not involve what they are aiming for. Specifically, there is baldness.

Recently, American scientists have identified what kind of cells make hair and turn hair into silver. Worth mentioning is that, this is a very accidental discovery, occurring during the study of the formation of cancer.

This is considered a breakthrough, because it gives tremendous hope to help treat baldness and hair grayness in people - all signs that no one wants from aging.

The protein KROX20 moves the skin cells into hair.

According to Lu Le, associate professor of dermatology at the University of Texas Southwest Medical Center : "Although this project was originally about understanding how to form some types of cancer, we finally found out why the hair was silver, and determine the type of cell that helps grow hair ".

"As a result, in the future we believe that it will create a topical drug, or find a way to implant the necessary genes into the hair follicle to solve the problem no one wants."

Specifically, experts found a protein called KROX20. This protein is involved in the development of nerve cells, but it turns out to affect the skin cells that make up hair.

In addition, these cells will produce a protein called "stem cell factor" (SCF) , which plays a role in hair pigmentation.

If successful, this will be a turning point for people to answer the question of why we are aging.

Through mouse tests, when trying to "remove" the SCF gene, the mouse hair turned white. And when deleting the cells that created KROX20, the mice were completely hairless - or . bald.

Experts say future studies need to confirm whether the KROX20 and SCF genes will stop working over time, because the older the person becomes, the more silver and thin the hair becomes. If successful, this will be a turning point for people to answer the question of why we are aging.

The research is published in Genes & Development magazine.