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Human lung created in the lab
http://edition.cnn.com/2014/02/14/he...s-lungs-grown/
Seems like there is also soon going to be a cure for baldness.
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What would you categorise as "soon" ?
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basically one's sick of saying "in 2-5 years", but considering the progress in stem cell and cloning technology, there is a chance that this gets more and more realistic. Perhaps there are only a few times left to say "in 2-5 years"
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Before anyone complains "oh, so they can grow lungs now and the hair loss industry can't grow a single follicle."
Read:
Nichols said she thinks it will be another 12 years or so until they'll be ready to try using these lungs for transplants.
And it took 2 damaged lungs from recently dead kids in order to produce 1 that MIGHT be able to be transplanted.
Regenerative medicine still has ways to go. At this point, everyone is still trying to work out the little kinks that comes with growing the organs they want to grow.
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They say in that article its at least 12 years before they try this in people as a time frame for how long this kind of stuff really is. So yeah in 20 years there is a chance for hair, but you have to keep a realistic view on how slow this stuff moves. People constantly babble on about how amazingly fast it all moves and it really doesnt.
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Originally Posted by burtandernie
They say in that article its at least 12 years before they try this in people as a time frame for how long this kind of stuff really is. So yeah in 20 years there is a chance for hair, but you have to keep a realistic view on how slow this stuff moves. People constantly babble on about how amazingly fast it all moves and it really doesnt.
Actually there's an argument about that says technological advancement in general is exponential rather than gradual or stagnant.
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Actually there's an argument about that says technological advancement in general is exponential rather than gradual or stagnant.
I've heard this too, but I think things are different when we're talking about advances in medicine. New treatments generally have to go through clinical trials, and the path from proof of concept through each phase of testing to commercial release takes years.
The news about the regenerated lung is especially bittersweet for me. A friend is dying from lung cancer, and no, he was never a smoker. Very sad to think that something that could help is out there, but that it won't be commercialized in time.
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Originally Posted by rhysmorgan
Actually there's an argument about that says technological advancement in general is exponential rather than gradual or stagnant.
Yup, as time goes on the half life of knowledge becomes smaller and smaller. The things we learn today become outdated at a continually quicker pace as discovery continually increases.
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This is really promising research in terms of organ regeneration, but don't get your hopes up and thinking these same cell-generation/tissue-engineering techniques translate just as nicely to hair-follicle stimulation.
As seen in all the other threads, histogen, replicel, aderans, and all these other projects are failing to produce anything really tangible. There are solid scientific reasons why they are failing and why cell regeneration as a balding cure is totally impractical.
Baldness will only truly be cured when we have reliable gene therapy, and that type of technology is at least 200-300 years i.e not in your great grandson's lifetime.
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Well I think growing hair or multiplying hair will be the cure for MPB sooner or later. Companies failing to get results does not mean it cant be done. Failures are a prerequisite for later successes that is how you learn. Could come from gene therapy, but I think figuring out the combinations of genes would take more time then growing new hair or multiplying hair. We already have grown hair in a lab recently some refinements to that to more closely resemble real hair genetically, and MPB is cured.
This is good news though for problems other then hair which are more important in the long run since they are critical health problems. Its just going to be decades away and its possible in a decade its still decades away.
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