Growing up, I was obsessed with Jim Carrey. I was just entering my teens when The Mask came out, and I can still picture myself watching Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls on TV one weekend afternoon, absolutely howling at the silliness of it. His elastic facial expressions, the energy, the stunts it was the perfect tenor of humour for a young boy.
In tests on mice, scientists placed a microneedle patch infused with a mix of minoxidil and steviosides on the rodents' bald back every day for a month and found it triggered new hair growth across 67.5 percent of their back by the experiment's end. Mice who had the standard two percent minoxidil solution, without steviosides, sprayed onto their backs every day for the same period saw regrowth over just 25 percent of the bald area.