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Hair Transplantation Into Scars on the Scalp

Hair transplantation into scar tissue is often used to camouflage scarring on the scalp. But no one has looked at whether you actually get changes to the scar tissue other than a cosmetic effect of introducing a hair follicle into the scar. We found that the hair follicle seemed to be actively remodeling the surrounding tissue. A way to make new brain cells, either for the purposes of repairing the nervous system or studying the mechanisms behind degenerative diseases like Parkinson's have been developed by scientists in America.

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