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Or maybe they just don't genuinely have a product that people would be happy with just yet. Progress is made and with each progress another milestone is set in stone. No one should belittle their progress just because they don't have a product to show for it because one day all that research is going to culminate into a product that we will use.
Are they taking forever? Yes. But I'm also sure they understand how much money there is to be made in this so it's not like they aren't trying their best. They're not using tax paper money, so why ppl feel entitled to a cure is actually beyond me. If u want to take initiative, and try to research and develop a cure to something that has been stumping people for thousands of years, take it through the FDA approval, and then market it...let's see how fast it gets done. I already know I'm going to backlash for "defending" the researchers but I'm just saying put your self in their shoes. Life isn't as simple as u guys seem to make it.Comment
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Maybe it is not as simple as we think it is to solve.
Put it this way, it is in his interest to solve it - not only because financially it will make him very rich, but also because of the kudos/recognition he will get for solving a problem that has never been solved before.Comment
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The thing is guys that we follow these things too early in the game, we know them before there are any trials due to the power of the internet. They announce something and we think that its around the corner. I think these things are very experimental and we get ahead of ourselves thinking we are saved. I know it sucks but if they had something close to becoming reality big pharma and corporations would go overboard who is gonna acquire them first. There are thousands small start ups which try to bring better cures and medicine for various diseases, all of them pass some milestones all of them publish but only a few ever succeed and become rich.
Even worst some of them researchers know that their quest might not be completed until some new technologies and understandings come to reality, but they want to have their name as the first who recognised the problem, the first who solved the riddle so when these new technologies ever come and the cure is found they will be forever known as the ones who saw the solution and they were ahead of their time but they just didn't have the means to get to it back then.Comment
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On a bright note though we have the drugs that supposedly can help with the discovery of kotsarelis in clinical trials right now so we will know sooner how this works, but still progress as others say seems too slow and i am not sure if we can avoid propecia even if the new cure from kotsarelis comes.Comment
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Very true but we must keep in mind Follica are the ones who have spoken about commercialization in multiple occasions. I think anyone who looks at their story closely cannot be anything other than excited.
Despite what people have said on the forums, even their latest publication in December showed significant efforts directed at mechanisms to manipulate hair follicle growth. Researchers obviously knew already about the importance of WNT but that doesn't mean they don't need to carry out experiments to learn how to exploit it practically.
They have a device that applies studied techniques to wound the skin and with the application of topicals that are currently on the market for other purposes (read, no clinical trials needed), they have been able to create new hair follicles consistently.
Now they need to master the manipulation of whichever compounds and factors need to be inhibited or stimulated (and to what extent) so they can achieve the results they know we want to pay for. And they have been developing protocols to do all this.
Yeah be skeptical if you want, but I think anyone who is reasonable and wants to look at the facts has to be excited. This is great progress they have made and they surely will keep going in this direction.Comment
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Ugh, yeah, spoken spoken spoken to death about commercialization... but never commercialized.Comment
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It's confusing exactly what their treatment will actually be able to do, one place I read quotes about reversing baldness and another just slowing down hair loss. I just hope it comes out in time before my thinning gets out of reach for this treatment
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They're definitely NOT going to release a product that simply slows down hair loss... we've had garbage products like that for the last 20+ years; finasteride and minoxidil.
Spencer Kobren confirmed they created NEW hair follicles...Comment
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