Bald is beautiful ... or is it?

It could have been about that softball team that had the question shaven or unshaven in their bio questions.

Most white men who shave their head look like a prisoner or Rob Halford. Very few can pull off the haved dome. I myself would look like Pvt. Pyle from Full Metal Jacket.

 

It's a racist statement from a white guy with a head full of hair. Howie Mandell has pulled it off but it took some getting used to. I think Paul Shaffer pulls it off very well too.

 

Good news for bald people.
PHILADELPHIA - Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have found that hair follicles in adult mice regenerate by re-awakening genes once active only in developing embryos. These findings provide unequivocal evidence for the first time that, like other animals such as newts and salamanders, mammals have the power to regenerate. These findings are published in the May 17 issue of Nature.
A better understanding of this process could lead to novel treatments for hair loss, other skin and hair disorders, and wounds.
“We showed that wound healing triggered an embryonic state in the skin which made it receptive to receiving instructions from wnt proteins,” says senior author George Cotsarelis, MD, Associate Professor of Dermatology. “The wnts are a network of proteins implicated in hair-follicle development.”
Researchers previously believed that adult mammal skin could not regenerate hair follicles. In fact, investigators generally believe that mammals had essentially no true regenerative qualities. (The liver can regenerate large portions, but it is not de novo regeneration; some of the original liver has to remain so that it can regenerate.)
In this study, researchers found that wound healing in a mouse model created an “embryonic window” of opportunity. Dormant embryonic molecular pathways were awakened, sending stem cells to the area of injury. Unexpectedly, the regenerated hair follicles originated from non-hair-follicle stem cells.
“We’ve found that we can influence wound healing with wnts or other proteins that allow the skin to heal in a way that has less scarring and includes all the normal structures of the skin, such as hair follicles and oil glands, rather than just a scar,” explains Cotsarelis.
By introducing more wnt proteins to the wound, the researchers found that they could take advantage of the embryonic genes to promote hair-follicle growth, thus making skin regenerate instead of just repair. Conversely by blocking wnt proteins, they also found that they could stop the production of hair follicles in healed skin.
Increased wnt signaling doubled the number of new hair follicles. This suggests that the embryonic window created by the wound-healing process can be used to manipulate hair-follicle regeneration, leading to novel ways to treat hair loss and hair overgrowth.
These findings go beyond just a possible treatment for male-pattern baldness. If researchers can effectively control hair growth, then they could potentially find cures for people with hair and scalp disorders, such as scarring alopecia where the skin scars, and hair overgrowth.
This research was funded in part by the National Institute of Arthritis, Musculoskelatal and Skin Disease and the Pennsylvania Department of Health. Other co-authors in addition to Cotsarelis are Mayumi Ito, Zaixin Yang, Thomas Andl, Chunhua Cui, Noori Kim, and Sarah E. Millar, all from Penn.
Cotsarelis and Ito are listed as inventors on a patent application related to hair-follicle neogenesis and owned by the University of Pennsylvania. Cotsarelis also serves on the scientific advisory board and has equity in Follica, a start-up company that has licensed the patent from the University of Pennsylvania. Cotsarelis was also a co-founder of Follica.
This release and a related image can be viewed at http://www.pennhealth.com/news.

 

It depends on the shape of one's cranium. If the skull has swales, don't shave it.

For all the asskickings Jay takes here, he's always been guy with an occasional sense of humor. Impish, even.

 

Doesn't make trying to cozy up to the players any less pathetic, or his actions over the last 3,000 years any more forgiveable.

I don't care if he tells the best knock knock jokes in the world. He's still a pathetic piece of shit.

 

Horwitz has always been in a sort of no-man's land. The Mets traditionally have liked their top end people with a dash of elitism and polish (he clearly has neither of those). Check. He came from some dinky shit school in New Jersey and not Fordham or NYU. Check. And he would get his ass kicked if the team was getting crucified in the papers or get his ass kicked by the media for shielding. Double check.

I'm not defending him, but I'm surprised he had any hair left to be shorn.

 

Yet he's survived nearly 30 years. Don't let the dopey dipshit act fool you. He knows how to paint himself as indispensible, when the fact of the matter is he could quit tomorrow and productivity within the PR department would rise by 50 percent.

The only consolation is knowing little Jeffy tears him a new asshole every day. That's gotta be a tough way to go thru life: Getting your shit kicked in every day by a guy who was a teenager when you started your gig. Oh well. Couldn't happen to a more deserving piece of crap.

 

stay on topic asshole.

 

Gee, BYH, he always speaks highly of you.

 

Jay also has half of the traveling secretary job (shared with clubhouse man Charlie Samuels).

All that money and the Mets can't hire a full-time TS?

 

Jay can always sell the friendship diamonds Gooden gave him for fatherly protectorship being so good as to escort him out of Smithers.