Proceedings of the Ninth World Congress for Hair Research (2015)

There is growing research interest in the hair follicle as a model system because of the ease of access for study and the ability to use a wide variety of technologies, including sophisticated imaging techniques, to watch hair follicle growth in real time. The follicle is one of the most proliferative organs/cells, along with the bone marrow and gastrointestinal tract. Therefore, with greater understanding of hair cycling, cells outside the...