US Patent No. 9,351,914 B2; The board of trustees of Leland Stanford Junior University, Palo Alto, CA, has patented a biodegradable or biocompatible microneedle device for application of a laminin-511 peptide to a subject. The device is comprised of an array of hollow microneedles comprising a composition that has truncated, recombinant laminin-511 peptide trimer and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier in a therapeutically effective amount to increase scalp hair growth and to decrease scalp ha...