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Scientists Find Key to Curing Baldness
科学家发现治疗秃头的关键
Bald made a comeback years ago. Some men even shaving their heads before hair departed on its own, but many others say they would give anything to regrow their loss.
数年前，秃头死灰复燃。一些男子干脆在头发脱落之前剃光头发，但是其他人则表示，他们会不惜一切代价让脱发重生。
Now doctors say a big breakthrough could make that possible.
现在，医生们表示，一项重大突破使得这个想法成为可能。
"This is definitely a step closer to finding a new way of treating hair loss."
“这距离找到治疗脱发的方法又近了一步。”
While studying the cells of men undergoing hair transplants, Dr. George Costarelis says he and his team made a surprising discovery.
对接受了头发移植的男性的细胞进行研究之后，George Costarelis医生表示，他和他的团队有了惊人的发现。
"Which is that if the scalp that’s bald still has the same number of stem cells as the scalp that’s not bald."
“我们发现，秃头的头皮仍然有着和没有秃的头皮同样数量的干细胞。”
The problem is, even though the stem cells exist they are not producing a different kind of cell called a progenitor cell.
问题是，即使这些干细胞仍然存在，却不能生成另外一种不同的叫做祖细胞的细胞。
"These are the ones that are the work horse cells. They are constantly making the hair."
“这些是工作的细胞。它们不断生成头发。”
Doctor Costarelis says he is hopeful researchers will find a way to turn the inactive stem cells back on.
Costarelis医生表示，他有信心，研究人员会找到让这些失去活力的细胞恢复生机的办法。
"We know the stem cells are present. They’re not gone. If they gone it would be more difficult to design a treatment, the current treatments are very good at maintaining the hair that you have. This one would be geared towards actually reversing hair loss. So even if you’re bald, theoretically this would be able to activate the stem cells and get new hair to grow in."
“我们知道这些干细胞是存在的，它们并没有失去。如果失去了，研究治疗方法将更加困难。目前的治疗方法对于维持剩余的头发来说非常有效。而这个最新发现则有助于逆转脱落的头发。所以，即使你已经秃头，从理论上说，也可以激活干细胞，让新发重生。”
Doctors don’t know if baldness in women works the same way.
医生们不知道女性秃头是否也是同样的原理。
"Many of my patients are women, most of them actually are women. And I will really like to be able to help them more than what I can currently. so in the future I wanna figure out whether this same principles apply to female pattern hair loss."
“我的许多病人是女性，其实大部分是女性。我希望能够给她们提供比现在更多的帮助。所以，我希望将来能够了解同样的原理是否适用女性模式的脱发。”
