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Nature 446, 20-21 (1 March 2007) | doi:10.1038/446020a; Published online 28 February 2007

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Science of hair: The roots of accomplishment

Helen Pearson1

  1. Helen Pearson is a reporter for Nature in New York.

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From a New Jersey beauty parlour to cutting-edge genetics by way of her own alopecia, Angela Christiano's life has all been tied up with hair. Helen Pearson meets a woman whose head is full of the stuff that covers it.

No one forgets their first encounter with Angela Christiano. For Jorge Frank, it was in an office at New York's Columbia University in 1995.