“Melanocytes are pigment cells that give our hair its color.“ It’s common for almost everyone to have gray hair. According to Woolery-Lloyd, melanocytes aren't producing melanin as much as ...

There, they remain, do not mature into the transit-amplifying ... Our study adds to our basic understanding of how melanocyte stem cells work to color hair. The newfound mechanisms raise the ...

The new study, conducted using mice and published in Nature, a peer-reviewed journal, closely examined the melanocyte stem cells known to control hair color. Earlier in life, these cells can be ...

And the pigment doesn't only determine eye color − it also controls the color and tone "of our skin and hair as well," explains Dustin Portela, DO ... skin cells called melanocytes that ...

“Our study adds to our basic understanding of how melanocyte stem cells work to color hair,” study lead investigator Qi Sun, a postdoctoral fellow at NYU Langone Health, said in a press release.

According to a National Institutes of Health (NIH) study, oxidative stress in hair follicles can lead to premature greying by damaging melanocytes—the cells responsible for hair pigmentation.

As hair grows, color is simultaneously added. With time, melanocyte stem cells seem to ... but most people do not have significant gray hair until the age of 50. Understanding what causes ...

They also do not travel back to their original ... “Our study adds to our basic understanding of how melanocyte stem cells work to color hair,” study co-author and New York University computer ...

“It is the loss of chameleon-like function in melanocyte stems cells that may be responsible for graying and loss of hair color,” Mayumi Ito, study senior investigator and professor in the Ronald ...