Hair “Cloning” Is Not Really Cloning

It seems that your prediction regarding the effect of regulatory and legislative hurdles to hair “cloning” is based in part on the idea that any type of “cloning” technology will necessarily take longer go get past those hurdles because of our country’s (i.e., the public, legistlators’, and the administrative agencies’) cynical views regarding cloning. Isn’t that a flawed premise? Hair “cloning” is not really cloning at all. No organs are being cloned. Instead, cells are being encouraged to divide and multiply. Those cells then are implanted in the scalp. Although the process is cellular therapy, it is not cloning.

With this in mind, does your analysis change? Thanks for your response.

Hair is actually the biggest organ on our body next to your skin. Hair does not divide naturally and multiply to create copies of itself. That would be cloning.

My views on cloning is independent of the government’s views. It is my opinion that current technology has not progressed to a level where cloning an organ (as simple as it may seem) is in our immediate future. Any process like this will require FDA involvement. That takes time.