Normally, a cross-section of a strand of hair is circular. But the hair of kids with UHS often have triangular or heart-shaped cross-sections. The team next engineered mice to have the same ...

When a follicle is asymmetrical, the hair that it produces is oval in shape and tends to curl ... The former were circular in cross section and symmetrical in structure. The latter, though ...

If you see a child with frizzy blond hair that sticks out at right angles to their scalp, they might just have uncombable hair syndrome. A new study has shed more light on this rare condition ...

Bundles of keratin proteins (the middle layer of black dots above) are susceptible to changing shape on a humid day. Image from Gray’s Anatomy Hair ... in the cross-section at right.