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Study Offers New Look at Hair Follicle Mechanics

L’Oréal and Queen Mary University scientists publish a study that shows it is pulled upward, not pushed.

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By: Christine Esposito

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Newly published research from scientists at Queen Mary University of London and L’Oréal is pushing back on conventional thinking about hair growth. The researchers say hair is not pushed out of the root. Instead, it is pulled upward by a force associated with a hidden network of moving cells. Their work was published in a new issue of Nature Communications. Researchers from L’Oréal Research & Innovation and the University used 3D live imaging to track individual cells within ...

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