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Reuters report on ICX (Hair Multiplication & Research)

posted by cal, 03.05.2008, 21:32

AK,

the overall answer to your question is this:

Creating hair follicles is a whole lot more complex than regrowing skin itself. It's frustrating because they're so small and the job seems so simple, but that's the situation.

The individual follicles basically function like individual little organs. Science can't easily regrow a whole new hair follicle for the same reason that they can't regrow you a new heart or lung or arm yet either. Regenerating a big amount of skin for grafting is actually a lot easier than doing one tiny little follicle for this reason.

The best we've had with full-blown cloning of hair follicles didn't work very well. They basically came out looking more like little body hairs than the big long shiny scalp hairs they were sourced from.

So science has basically turned to other ways of beating the problem. The ICX project was supposed to harvest the certain kinds of cells that were most affected by MPB inside the follicle, and then clone & reinject them everywhere. This hasn't been working as well as hoped.

The hopes now are resting on Follica. Their plan involves basically wounding the scalp skin (just cosmetic dermabrasion, nothing serious), and then tricking it into healing back up in a "younger" form than when it was injured.

Doctors have known for years that there are random weird cases of bald guys having hair regrowth at the wound after a scalp injury. The principle can work, it's just a matter of whether or not we have figured out a decent way to control the process yet.

Acell's wound-healing powder (the fingertip-regenerating stuff) is the last hope if Follica's deal falls through. We don't know if it will regrow hair yet but the idea seems plausible. And the manufacturer has said the idea is worth trying.

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