Of balding mice and men and women

•Fewer stem cells in hair follicles result in thinning hair, baldness

• Loss of stickiness allows stem cells to drift away from follicle

•Scientists identified key genes linked to loss of adhesion

•Lab studying how to restore these 'adhesion' genes

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