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New Hair Growth Study Has Promising Results

The secret to restoring and regrowing hair has long been an elusive one, but Angela Christiano may have found the secret. A long-time sufferer of alopecia areata, a condition well-known for causing hair loss, Christiano has found a way to grow a full head of hair in a laboratory setting.

Christiano, a researcher at Columbia University, was not satisfied with the limited options for women's hair growth. Instead of settling for 20-year-old medications, Christiano decided to take matters into her own hands by using a patient's own stem cells to grow hair which could later be transplanted to bald spots.

Christiano is on the forefront of a movement in the biotech community to treat severe hair loss as a medical condition. While this may sound intimidating, it means that those suffering from hair loss may finally get some current and effective medical treatments for their issues. 

How is this different from current treatments? Well, many people mistakenly treat hair loss as a cosmetic issue rather than a medical concern. Part of this misconception comes from how flat-out difficult it has proven to try to regrow hair.

And unfortunately, there are no shortages of ways for men and women to lose their hair. One of the most common ways is through alopecia areata, a condition which causes that immune system to see hair as a virus and subsequently attack the hair follicles.