Ingredient in McDonald's fries may help cure baldness

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McDonald's fries may be more useful than just for munching onaccording to recent study.

According to a Japanese stem cell research team - an ingredient found in the famous fries may just cure baldness.

The scientists - from Yokohama National University - discovered that a chemical found in the fries, known as dimethylpolysiloxane, can be used to produce hair follicles on mice.

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That chemical - is a silicone used to prevent frothing and splashing in the fry oil.

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The method has proved widely successful in creating what is known as "hair follicle germs" (HFG), or cells that help grow hair follicles.

It is the dimethylpolysiloxane chemical that researchers are crediting with the success of creating thousands of simultaneous HFG's.

"This simple method is very robust and promising. We hope that this technique will improve human hair regenerative therapy to treat hair loss such as androgenic alopecia," adds Fukuda. "In fact, we have preliminary data that suggests human HFG formation using human keratinocytes and dermal papilla cells."

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