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June 30, 2022 —  University of California, Irvine-led researchers have discovered that a signaling molecule called SCUBE3 potently stimulates hair growth and may offer a therapeutic treatment for androgenetic alopecia, a common form of hair loss in both women and men.

January 9, 2025  – Maksim Plikus, a UC Irvine professor, along with Raul Ramos, a postdoctoral researcher in the Plikus laboratory and the study’s lead author, says, “Lipochondrocytes are not fat cells, nor are they conventional cartilage cells. They represent cells of a distinct skeletal tissue type that uses lipids in a way we’ve never seen before.”