Today’s interesting fact has to do with Hair.

Many men lose their hair, either in part or totally.

The reasons for this have been studied for years, and only recently have they worked out what might be the process of hair loss.

They've known for years that hair follicles get smaller and smaller, producing thinner and finer hair until it seems there is none.

Most women and men, who don't lose their hair, have hair follicles that renew themselves mostly in their original form.

What causes these follicles to renew themselves is a small quantity of stem cells located at the root of each hair follicle.

Very recently researchers at Yale have identified that there is a signal that goes from adipose precursor cells in the tissue surrounding the hair follicles to the hair stem cells.

Before hair growth starts, the layer of fat under the skin thickens.

This thickening produces molecules that then stimulate the hair stem cells, to regenerate the hair follicle.

If you feel a part of a scalp that has hair, you will notice that the thickness of the tissue between the outer layer of the skin and above the skull is slightly thicker than that where you don't have hair.

If they can get the fat cells to signal the hair stem cells they may be able to reverse the hair loss.

That is of course, if human hair and skin, works the same as the mice they have been studying.

We chrome domes can only hope.