Hairy moles may be unsightly, but they may hold the key to effective baldness treatment. Researchers at the University of California-Irvine said their findings could lead to new treatments for androgenetic alopecia. A specific molecule in those hairy moles, osteopontin, “causes normally dormant and diminutive hair follicles to activate their stem cells for robust growth of long and thick hairs,” said lead researcher Maksim Plikus, PhD, a professor of developmental and cell biology at the UC- ...