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For surgeons tasked with helping patients recover from serious nerve damage a trip to the hairdressers might be just the thing. Researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine in the US found that keratin, a fibrous structural protein found in hair, speeds up nerve regrowth (Biomaterials 2008, 29, 118-28).
The use of keratin as a biomaterial dates back to China in the 15th century, according to researcher Mark Van Dyke. His group decided to investigate whether hair might be useful in nerve regeneration, because hair growth is a highly proliferative, regenerative process known to involve more than thirty different growth …
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