Researchers at Duke‑NUS Medical School in Singapore found that activated hair follicle stem cells, which are essential for hair regrowth and repair, rely on a protective protein, MCL-1 ...

Researchers from Australia, Singapore, and China have identified the MCL-1 protein as a key protector of hair follicles, preventing apoptosis and thereby reducing hair loss. Their study ...

Without MCL-1, these cells undergo stress and eventually die, leading to hair loss, as reported in a Nature Communications study. Hair follicles are small tunnel-like structures in the skin where ...