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senior medical correspondent, elizabeth cohen, a little while ago. she says when it comes to genes, understanding how it happens is the first step. what does that lead to? does that necessarily lead to a cure? are we looking for a cure? what happened? what s the implication of this? so, in this case, we ve identified a pathway called the wind pathway that we ve known for years is important in malhair growth, but we didn t yet have a clear connection to the pathway in human hair growth. that s a big step. mice don t get male pattern baldness and that s been a real limitation in our ability to study the process in the lab or even to screen for drugs that might affect it. so, a gene gives us sort of a starting point, a jumping-off point for thinking about pathways and new ways to hit those pathways. so, up to now, most of the work done in pattern hair loss has been about hormonal pathways or dht, testosterone driven. right, right, right. this gives us a new way of looking at it and

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