Man Regrew a Fingertip, Why Can’t We Regrow Hair?
Dr. Rassman,
Sorry that I write you all the time. Have you read the news about the man who regrew his whole finger tip using a drug called ACell which vets use on pets. Why couldn’t this be used on humans to regrow our original DHT resistant donor supply after it is transplanted. My request might be a little far fetched but I believe someone is willing to be your guinea pig for an experiment like this. Thanks for everything you do.
I did a Google search on the subject and found this article from the Associated Press and posted to FOX News last year —Scientists Regrow Human Fingers. However, I don’t know any more than you do by reading such an article. There is no breakthrough that I can surround from the medical releases. Everything is experimental. The photos in that article showed the pulp of the finger on the palm side is what regrew. This is not a regrown finger like the examples that they gave on salamanders that grew limbs.
Like you, I read this material with great anticipation that someday we will see such breakthroughs available to us all, but I couldn’t say when that might happen. Note that the focus is not on hair, but rather on body parts and spinal injuries. That will become the first and second application that will be approved… not hair.
DR. Rassman, First of all thank you for putting is informative website for us all. With that being said, I am tired of reading your replays when it comes to the hair cloning section. You are not optimistic about any research at all, I also read a very negative outlook on any researches. Why not at least appreciate Acells breakthrough. Yes they grew a finger and it was on 60 minutes and Operah. If a finger was able to grow with a finger nail, don’t you think a skin will come with hair. At this time, I stated to believe that you are not here for Us. You must be here to recruit hair transplant patients. I hope this is not the case.
Seeing is believing, George. We’ve been hearing cloning was right around the corner for the past 15 years. There might be some progress, but it is nowhere near where hopeful folks believe it to be. I’m here to educate and share my experiences on this blog, and I encourage non-surgical treatments like medication more often than surgical treatments (which is where I’d make money). So your assumption that I’m just trying to recruit transplant patients is out of line. I’m not here to blow smoke and give false hope about a technology that isn’t ready for prime time.