Israeli biology students are researching a new way to prevent hair loss caused by chemotherapy in an effort to produce it on an industrial scale.
Students at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have been attempting to synthetically produce decursin, a hair loss deterrent, with the hopes of incorporating it into products such as shampoos, creams, and more.
The team aims to create special bacteria that will then produce decursin, which is also a major component of Angelica gigas Nakai root extract. Angelica gigas Nakai is a plant grown exclusively on the Korean Peninsula, and extracting decursin from it is an expensive and inefficient process, according to a statement by the school….