Sweet chrome dome, Ratman! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Your hair interacts a lot with the skin and blood vessels around its roots. Sometimes these interactions don’t go according to plan, leading to balding. Could the future of hair loss treatment be fixing blood
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Rapunzel, Rapunzel! Let down your golden hairrr….conditioning secrets! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. There’s a problem with hair conditioners. They’re not too friendly to the environment! Many conditioners contain ingredients made from chemicals and petroleum. Is there a better recipe? Enter Fengyang Wang and
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Was the first Grecian formula… Roman? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. When it came to coloring hair, Ancient Rome was startlingly advanced. Their recipe for hair dye combines lead, sulfide, and lime. This creates nanocrystals which grow not just INSIDE hair strands but in
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Is your hairstyle … HAZARDOUS?! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. No, this isn’t about the time I got my hair caught in the pasta press. We’re talking volatile organic compounds, or VOCs. These are chemicals discharged into the air as gas; some are toxic.
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ANOTHER gray hair? Oh no! Break out the Lady Grecian Formula! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science, on going gray! Oh, those silvery locks, at too young an age – is stress to blame? Melissa Harris from the University of Alabama, Birmingham studied how stress
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Oh no! Is that . . . a new gray hair?! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Was it stress from traffic? Or hosting that interminable Thanksgiving dinner? More importantly, can I reverse it? Enter Ayelet Rosenberg from Columbia University and team. They tracked down
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Look for the bare necessities! Or maybe… HAIR necessities! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Hair follicle stem cells located in our scalps keep our locks luscious. Scientists can grow these hair-makers from OTHER types of stem cells. However, the lab-grown variety doesn’t always work
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Oh no! Is that . . . a new gray hair?! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Was it stress from traffic? Or hosting that interminable Thanksgiving dinner? More importantly, can I reverse it? Enter Ayelet Rosenberg from Columbia University and team. They tracked down fifteen people
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What’s the secret to luscious locks? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Hair loss happens naturally! But can it be stopped? Or, what makes hair GROW so we can keep our heads full of it? Yingzi Liu and scientists from around the world collaborated to
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Oh no! Is that . . . a new gray hair?! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Was it stress from traffic? Or hosting that interminable Thanksgiving dinner? More importantly, can I reverse it? Enter Ayelet Rosenberg from Columbia University and team. They tracked down
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