Hair Cloning Update 2015

[lucldh]

Folks, is there any update on hair cloning techniques? Have the trials on humans started? How are things going on?

[karxxx]

No news results continue at Yale University, south korea , japan continue

[karxxx]

retrograde alopecia

Side neck to pour all of the donor area ?

Such as total alopecia ?

Advertise have photos?

Please help ?

protected drugs hair few years ?

Be baldness in totoal few years in this disease?

thanks.

[Shacked]

There have been no breakthroughs and IMO its unlikely to happen in the next 20 years. A study came out a couple of months ago, but the caveat is that they used stem cells that are not appropriate for medicinal solutions: Stem Cells Promote Human Hair Regrowth In Mice : Science : Design & Trend

[BogDan]

I hope hair cloning becomes reality soon! Sounds awesome!

[gbhscot]

The US army (god knows why) are apparently patenting a hair cloning method revolving around follicle neogenesis....?!

[TakingThePlunge]

I can only imagine that once someone has perfected the cloning of viable hair follicles, the cloning process itself will remain astronomically expensive for the first few years.

 

And...don't forget that someone will then need to surgically implant those follicles adding further to the high cost.

 

Given the time it takes for such procedures to become FDA approved, I wouldn't expect cloning to be an option for most of us for many years to come.

 

Years ago there was a handful of companies exploring compelling ways to regenerate hair growth and the momentum seems to have just fizzled out. I'm unaware of anything that is deemed a true contender for ending genetic hair loss at this time.

 

Very sad indeed.

Edited July 16, 2015 by David - Moderator

[gbhscot]

Sadly I think you will be right, it is going to probably be beyond what anyone here can afford and will remain so for a number of years, if not on a near permanent basis. People will always go bald, they will always be able to skim the top of the market and make the same money from the top 5% as they would with a cost strategy targeting the average HL sufferer. This is why I hate the pharma industry so much. Health and happiness should never be the subjects of cold transaction

 

On the other hand of course, we the consumer, alongside the numerous HL surgeons and practitioners could use these forums to encourage HL sufferers to resist those treatments and force them to bring the cost down to a reasonable amount through boycotting doing it....in an ideal, utopian, completely unrealistic world of course.

[DCMB]

A Japanese company has made this announcement recently.... Already patented and getting ready for 2018

 

https://globalcosmeticsnews.com/asia-australasia/1544/shiseido-claims-to-have-found-a-cure-for-baldness-available-from-2018

[Samcanada]

A phase 1 of a five years trails for cloning hair started this year in Germany.

From what I remember the first few problems to deal with were the amount of hair cloned were very limited and that some of the cloned hair grew gray or colorless. Unfortunately I couldn't find the detailed article online anymore.

[jfables]

So nothing new? I've been hearing 5 more years for the past 15 years. What happened to Aderans?

[Dr Blake Bloxham]

JFables,

 

Aderans closed down their ARI (the research cloning branch) a few years back.

 

The biggest "new" thing in the past few years was figuring out that cultured dermal papilla (follicle stem cells) cells need to be cultured in a 3D (orb-like) environment to really be "cloned" properly. So a few groups are now re-working the cloning issue with this new information. In my opinion, however, I don't think we are really much "closer" to cloning. There have been a few groups (namely in Europe and Japan) who have created follicle-like structures or created follicle stem cell clusters that grew in mice, but no fully functional follicles on a human scalp yet.

 

There are a few other "future" avenues being explored. Namely injections of growth factors (adipose/fatty stem cells -- Kerastem, dermal sheath stem cells -- Replicel) and a few other medications based upon the inflammation theory of androgenic alopecia (setipiprant and bimatoprost), but these are all still in early testing phases (and I personally think the injectable stuff will have really big issues with the FDA).

 

I've always been of the belief that the most realistic "breakthrough" will be donor doubling procedures, but this has actually proved more difficult than initially expected and may require the use of potentially dangerous growth factor substances to really work.

[voxman]

So in the end, it's just the FU of our choice.

[esrec]

Wonder how much funding is going into this. In general the US is way behind on anything scientific because half the country believes the world was created in 7 days. Asian countries are way ahead on the R+D side and tend to test more liberally, but have yet to hear of any major advancements or even human testing either.

 

Pretty exciting topic, even for a layman, thanks for reviving this.

[NoName]

I believe that the cloning the follicle cells is a dead-end road for now. Perhaps there will be some other usage of the research that was done in this field but it will not be in the field of hair loss. What is encouraging is the fact that there are so much other research now on hair loss now and that at least one of these will be a success. I mean, a few years back guys were only taking about Histogen and Aderans but now there is much more going on...