Lab-Grown Hair Follicles Reach Growth Milestone in Mice
Researchers created fully functional hair follicles in the lab using a three-cell recipe (epithelial stem cells, dermal papilla cells, and accessory mesenchymal cells), enabling growth cycles and tissue attachment in mice; this marks progress toward lab-grown hair restoration and organ regeneration, though human trials are not yet underway and scaling/transplantation remain challenges. OrganTech partly funded the work, and the findings were published in Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications.
