“Although this project was started in an effort to understand how certain kinds of tumors form, we ended up learning why hair turns gray and discovering the identity of the cell that directly gives rise to hair,” said Lu Q. Le, MD, PhD, associate professor of dermatology with the Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center, UT Southwestern. “With this knowledge, we hope in the future to create a topical compound or to safely deliver the necessary gene to hair follicles to correct these cosmetic problems.”
There is a long path to this discovery and an actual drug. The full article is here: https://www.mdlinx.com/dermatology/article/861?utm_source=in-house&utm_medium=message&utm_campaign=in-the-news-may17-derm