How Long Will NHI’s ACell Study Be?
Hey Dr. Rassman, thanks a lot for taking the initiative to conduct a large-scale ACell study.
When can the general public expect an update regarding your progress? That is, how long do you think it will take for your team to determine whether or not autocloned hairs cycle regularly and whether or not the yield percentage is statistically significant?
The cycling question will reflect the normal cycles in the individuals under the study. I would assume that the cycle will run about 3 years, but indications may become apparent if the hair count starts to drop after a year or so.
So what exactly does this mean?
It will take a year to find out if the hairs cycle? What if they are implanted and then plucked? Wouldn’t this be an easier way to find out if the hairs grow back over time?
I’m not a doctor, nor do I have any medical experience whatsoever – can someone that knows a little bit more about this weigh in?
Acell isnt a cure, so get over it
Wow, that is a very interesting idea.
Let the hair, say, grow out for 6 months or so, until that other portion of the follicle that is actually in the skin grows ( I think it is called the derma papilla).
After it looks healthy and alive, just pluck out that hair fiber.
Does the derma papilla produce a new hair?
This approach can be used in concert with just letting the hair grow through its cycle.
It is not an either-or question.
Genious, really. I wouldn’t have though of that myself.
The plucking idea to determine cycling is what dr cooley said he was going to do!
Has he done it yet?
Will Dr Rassman be doing this?
How is ACell not a cure if it is suppose to be give unlimited donor supply!?
Because its just singular hairs, not units, if you used it completely on NW15 you would still have thin hair that wouldnt look right, and probably cost about 100k anyway.
To Thomas: What hairs? The donor area or the hairs that were transplanted to the top?
To sdgfsg: Well, if you have unlimited donor hair and it\’s healthy you can transplant as many hairs you want even to a NW7 and restore a full head of hair!
It will still look wrong, they wont be follicular units, just singular hairs, you might plant them closer together but I doubt it will look the same
V: The hairs that are plucked and placed in the recipient area, i. e. the “transplanted” hairs (it’s not really a transplantion in the traditional sense).
The point is that these hairs may not behave normally even though they might look normal to begin with. To cure male pattern baldness is all about defying nature and when you do that, nature tends to fight back. And it is a powerful and unpredictable opponent. But hey, we’ve beat her before…