Anatomy in the News

Although my short hair is simple to manage, I do want to grow it back out. According to Columbia University Medical Center, blocking enzymes in hair follicles promotes hair growth. “In experiments with mouse and human hair follicles, Angela M. Christiano, PhD, and colleagues found that drugs that inhibit the Janus kinase (JAK) family of enzymes promote rapid and robust hair growth when directly applied to the skin.” (CU Med. Center, 2015) Researches agree that there isn’t enough proof that this is effective for male baldness and that “more work needs to be done to test formulations of JAK inhibitors specially made for the scalp to determine whether they can induce hair growth in humans.” (Christiano, 2015) Mice were given