Not all local biotech researchers working on cures for cancer, chronic diseases

Ryan McBride interviews the CEO of a Cambridge start-up seeking to use the full weight of modern science against the scourge of frizzy hair:

... The substance, Robillard says, combats frizz by both coating porous hair shafts, preventing water from penetrating them, and by smoothing over hair cuticles to prevent surface friction. He argues that polyflouroester prevents frizz better than silicone used in other products because its molecules' smaller size enables them to fit into tiny pores in our hair that silicone molecules cannot get into. ...