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标题: Cause of Baldness 科学家揭晓秃头的原因 [打印本页]

作者: 李武军    时间: 2011-6-26 16:31     标题: Cause of Baldness 科学家揭晓秃头的原因

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Background: 近日,美国的科学家们表示他们发现了导致男士们脱发的原因并希望能早日找到治疗方法。研究表明人体内有缺陷的毛囊干细胞导致生长出来的毛发细得肉眼无法看得到。

For some men, bald is beautiful.

For many though hair loss is no laughing matter. But now researchers in America say they've uncovered a cure.

The iconic look may work for a few - especially celebrities - like the rugged Die Hard star Bruce Willis and Star Trek's Patrick Stewart.



An academic medical centre has found that hair follicles actually shrink, but don't disappear.

Dr George Cotsarelis, dermatology professor at Pennsylvania University, found the discovery hair-raising.

“What we found surprised us. The stem cells were present but they were not doing their job.”

The discovery of invisible hair sounds too good to be true. But what does it mean?

“It really gives us hope that because the stem cells are present itlowers the bar for developing treatments that could activate the stem cells and get them to form a new hair follicle,” said Dr Cotsarelis.

Treating these faulty stem cells means that, rather than just maintaining hair, we could soon regenerate hair.


作者: 雨落风残    时间: 2011-7-11 15:39

rugged adj 强健而富有魅力的;粗犷的

too good to be true 好的令人难以置信

lower the bar 降低标准


For celebrites, they will be popular whatever they look like. But for ordinary people, to be bald is, just like what is said in this paragraph, "no laughing matter".




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