Gray Hair Holds Clues To Fighting Cancer

No doubt many researchers have gotten gray hair trying to find ways to defeat cancer. Now a team of scientists says gray hair itself may yield clues to fighting that deadly disease. It turns out that melanoma, the most dangerous type of skin cancer, involves melanocytes, the cells that help color hair and skin. So researchers at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston decided to investigate what happens when these cells become depleted, allowing hair to go gray.

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