In the News – Kids with Alopecia Areata Treated with Stem Cells
Snippet from the article:
Children with alopecia areata, a condition that causes extensive, sometimes complete hair loss, grew hair after being injected with stem cells drawn from their own scalp in a small study.
Most of the five girls and three boys who had widespread baldness showed regrowth of as much as half of their hair in a preliminary study from Marwa Fawzi, a dermatologist at the University of Cairo Faculty of Medicine. Before the experimental treatment, some of the children had splotches of hair and baldness; others were almost totally bald.
Read the full article — Kids Shunned for Hair Loss Get Help From Their Own Stem Cells
Keep in mind that this is a treatment for alopecia areata, not male pattern baldness. That being said, even though it was an early study with only 8 kids, it’s something to research further and I’m hopeful something will come of it.
I get that there is a clear difference between androgenetic and areata hair loss, but if it grew hair, it grew hair. I don’t understand why the process would be any different if it made use of stem cells. The hairs that grow back may be prone to falling out once again in time, but wouldn’t they grow back as normal hairs firstly? I don’t understand why this seems to have just been brushed under the rug, seems like a pretty big deal to me. One kid grew an almost entirely full head of hair from being completely bald? People with male pattern baldness aren’t even generally that bald. Seems far more impressive than anything Aderans, Histogen, etc… are doing.