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Turning Curly Hair On or Off?

By Beauty Scoops Editors

Monday, 05 May 2008 17:13

Angela Christiano believes a drug will soon be developed that can allow naturally curly haired people to turn their natural curly hair on and off through a type of switch.

WSIL TV/3 in New York tonight reported on the recent findings of Geneticist Angela Christiano and her colleagues who have been studing people with a form of curly hair that is known as "wooly hair". Angela recently reported her findings in the Journal of Natural Genetics.

According to Angela, who was interviewed for this news segment by Channel WSIL in New York, "wooly hair", when studied under a microsope, reveals a series of "splits" that can be spotted throughout the entire hair fiber.

As Angela noted, these splits can cause hair breakage and sometimes it can lead to severe hair loss. Angela is very excited about her discoveries related to wooly hair and believe that the splits are due to a mutation in one gene. Even better, the protein that leads to the mutation in the gene is found on the cells surface. Angela believes that soon a drug will be created that will allow the manipulation of hair growth, hair loss and even hair texture.

What does this mean for curly hair? It means that a drug may be developed to allow naturally curly haired people to turn off their curls and change their texture to straight. Angela describes this process as a "switch".

(Image of Lorraine Massey - HairBoutique.com - all rights reserved - photographer Karen Marie Shelton).

A bigger question is whether or not people would opt to change the texture of their natural hair and whether or not curly haired people would decide to go straight or not.

The Channel WSIL news team visited the New York salon (Devachan) co-owned by Curly Girl best selling author Lorraine Massey to interview Ana Paula Cota, one of the curly hair experts at work. When asked if she would be willing to trade in her natural curls for a straight texture Ana Paula Cota was quoted as saying she was born with her curls, probably for a reason, and would die with them.

The question of the moment for all naturally curly people. Would you or would you not use the switch to instant lose your curls?

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anonymous said:

	I think its a great idea. I have naturally curly (wavy)hair. Many of my friends who havecurly hair would love for it to be straight and vice-versa. This would be an amazing discovery!
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Waad said:

	This discovery would probably be the greatest one in this century. If some day it become available to use I would be the first to use it. I would like to wake up one morning in my life with out thinking about my crazy curls and how to conrole their craziness.
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