New research provides clues on why hair turns gray

Tuesday, June 14, 2011 - 10:31 in Biology & Nature

A new study by researchers at NYU Langone Medical Center has shown that, for the first time, Wnt signaling, already known to control many biological processes, between hair follicles and melanocyte stem cells can dictate hair pigmentation. The study was published in the June 11, 2011 issue of the journal Cell.

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