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Scientists have found a way to defeat gray hair

 
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20 June 2011, 19:00

American scientists have found out why the hair turns gray. Specialists of the Medical Center at the University of New York have established that a special protein Wnt is responsible for the pigmented condition of the hair and provides control over all biological processes.

Now women all over the world rejoice - doctors know the specific reasons for the appearance of gray hair. The research report of Langon Medical Center details the whole mechanism of this process, and it is published in the journal Cell.

Modification of the detected protein in the future will avoid such a terrible for women natural process like graying.

With the help of a new study, you can now forget about problems with gray hair. In the body with the help of a special vaccine it will be possible to add the missing amount of active protein. Naturally, at first such vaccines will be available only to the well-to-do inhabitants of the planet.

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