In Search Of A Hair Loss Cure: How Close Are We, Really?

While losing a little off the top isn’t the social exile that it once was, the experience of hair loss is still stressful and frustrating for most people.

About 70 percent of men and 40 percent of women go through some degree of hair thinning as they age, almost usually as a result of androgenic alopecia (AGA), otherwise known as male or female pattern baldness. Though a number of products and treatments currently exist to fight back against hair loss, a so-called permanent “cure” would probably be one of the most exciting scientific discoveries to come along in a long time, right behind fat-free bacon and unlosable house keys. But is such a cure actually even possible? And if so, just how far from it are we?

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