i saw this on the bbc website today.

don't get carried away, it's probably old news to most people on the forum.

"Cells grown in the laboratory may offer a possible solution to hair loss, preliminary trials have suggested:
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Here is more on the same study.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/lif...cle4045906.ece

Notice the featured Doctor.

5 years is probably ambitious, but the future is brighter and brighter (and a hell of a lot better now than it was even 10 years ago).

baldness is an heritage from our mothers, not from the fathers.

-- I agree

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I hope that they are able to commercially distribute PD cells that don't lose their differentiation soon. I got a HT and probably won't need another one, but going off of propecia would be nice.

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Yes I am definitely following this story as well, but 5 years is a number picked out of a hat, no-one really knows. All we can say is there do seem to have been some developments in the last few years.

HealthyLiving - Baldness can come from either the father's or the mother's side of the family.

It looks promising, but even if it works it won't be the definitive solution to MPB (that will have to be some sort of gene manipulation, I guess). Correct me if I'm wrong, but this is basically still a transplant (much less violent and intrusive than today's HT, though) and it will require numerous interventions.

?«However, a UK specialist said further work would be needed so that the new hair looked right. [...]

To get anything growing at all is a real achievement, although it will be difficult to make the hair come back in the right way, pointing in the right direction, with the hair follicles lined up the right way."?»


This is the part of the article that I didn't like.

don??t be a pessimist that is an easier obstacle getting hair grow is the real deal...