I am constantly asked about hair cloning, and when I respond to a question where I suggest that cloning is not close at hand, I often get attacked for that view. I am outspoken and critical of over-simplification. There is too much sensationalism — setting up false expectations targeting desperate men who then think that […]
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The interest last week on our piece addressing hair cloning was very high. I would like to call your attention to a recent breakthrough that has just been reported on gene therapy. Scientists hope that by getting at the genetic roots of hair loss, they will eventually spawn better baldness treatments or a cure. This […]
It has been about six weeks since I’ve posted an entry about hair cloning, but I’ll revist the topic again because I get quite a few requests for information. People generally want to believe that cloning is just around the corner. When it comes to cloning, hair follicles are in a tough spot. They are […]
Benjamin asked… The hair cloning issue keeps coming up because it seems to be promoted by some unscrupulous people who use the cloning ‘card’ as a way to elevate their own position of authority in this business. There is no cloning on the short-term horizon for hair, despite claims to the contrary. If and when […]
https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Pharmaceuticals/World-s-first-tooth-regenerating-drug-to-enter-testing-in-Japanhttps://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Pharmaceuticals/World-s-first-tooth-regenerating-drug-to-enter-testing-in-Japan?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR3DPl497ybmhRYfC5dqTLB2v7QkgL51JdRd7DzFjCnymE8dFidmtSptKR4_aem_Ab3aNSyQheJAHcRzqLHuN2K9X_fBesqRxP_3b7n-3BvAXjaC9cGJ8QVcyrHoPAPiWueM6Bi8W5uBsR9e-AxrwBmY I was at a hair transplant meeting last week and heard an amazing discussion of cloning that reflects we are closer than I thought to achieving hair cloning. The above link suggests that a drug might regenerate a tooth, certainly on the complexity of a hair follicle. I see a bright future for hair […]
With male pattern baldness, large (terminal) hairs convert into small (vellus) hairs. This is the negative effect of testosterone and DHT, a potent testosterone derivative, on hair follicle stem cells. Despite lack of visible hair growth, hair stem cells remain largely intact in the bald scalp skin! Human hair loss conditions result from abnormalities in the […]
https://www.businesscloud.co.uk/news/world-first-start-up-hairclone-launches-baldness-cure Of course, when reading this, it is holding on to hair for future cloning when and if it becomes available. Interesting! I know the doctors involved in this project.
Am I the only person questioning why there isn’t a big market for this? Scientists all around the world are cloning hearts, lungs, and other organs in a glass box without a body. Yet these scientists cant just clone your hair follicles and transplant them or something – and just “cure” baldness? Or is this once again […]
Hi Dr Rassman, I wondered how your trials using ACell and autocloning are? How many patients have you enrolled? How large are the session sizes? Are you transplanting 100-200 hairs or more? Also do these plucked hairs treated with ACell behave as normal transplanted hairs i.e. they shed and begin growing after 3 months? Thanks. […]
I spent about an hour tonight on youtube reviewing a Denmark based hair stem cell clinic with other offices in Europe (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uu-pNdl7z38). I watched three videos about a half an hour each. What I saw was flamboyance with 8 star offices. One office was based in a castle, very impressive spokesperson, communicative in multiple languages including English, and lots […]
In this week’s issue of The New Yorker magazine (January 9, 2006; pages 43-48), there is an excellent article about hair loss titled “The Power of Hair”, by Burkhard Bilger. There is a great quote in the article from an anonymous source that says, “The man who isn’t bald never thinks about baldness. The man […]
Perhaps there is a misunderstanding that I would like to clear up. There is no limitation on the density of transplanted hairs, except on a per session basis. How close you can put the grafts together during surgery depend on the width of the grafts (not hair). Some grafts can be 1/16 to 1/8 of […]
Based on case reports of Dr Hitzig and Cooley from 2010, and the spirit of science we have tried to replicate the cloning claims by applying for clinical research through an institutional review board (IRB), also known as an independent ethics committee (IEC) or ethical review board (ERB), IRB. We had two category of ACell […]
It it generally thought that ACell will help the healing process deep in the wound and possibly reduce the superficial scarring, thereby making better wounds. There is circumstantial evidence for this in our practice, but this is more conjecture than science. I have not seen that ACell has helped the graft healing or made it […]
Snippet from the article: Read the rest — In a cloning first, scientists create stem cells from adults
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