Researchers at Michigan State University have developed a gel that could prevent hair loss during chemotherapy treatment.

Bryan Smith, an associate professor at Michigan State's College of Engineering and a member of the school’s Institute for Qualitative Health Science and Engineering, has developed a shampoo-like gel that he hopes will help protect patients’ hair throughout treatment.

Beyond physical appearance, Smith said he wanted to research hair-loss solutions to improve patients' personal, social and professional anxieties that can come with chemo.

"This unmet need of chemotherapy-induced alopecia appealed to me because it is adjacent to the typical needs in medicine such as better treatments and earlier, more accurate diagnostics for cancer," Smith said in a release . “This

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