Hair growth on the human body is a fascinating and sometimes perplexing phenomenon. While most people expect hair to grow on their scalp, eyebrows, and eyelashes, the appearance of hair in unexpected ...

Although humans are somewhat of a hairy species, we aren’t saturated in body hair like some mammals because the genes responsible for human body hair growth have largely been disabled. That’s ...

Human body hair might seem to be useless on today's modern man, but it could help us detect parasites, researchers suggest, adding there's a chance our female ancestors preferred a bug-free mate, and ...

The cure for male pattern baldness could already be in the human body. The condition, which causes gradual hair loss, affects up to 50% of men worldwide. Researchers at the University of Sheffield in ...

Have you ever looked in the mirror and noticed a stray hair on your ear? Maybe it was thin and barely noticeable, or perhaps it was a thick, stubborn strand that caught you by surprise. Ear hair can ...

In A Nutshell Gray hair in mice signals successful cancer defense: When stem cells that produce hair pigment get DNA damage, the body forces them to mature and exit, leaving gray hair behind as ...