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  • elvispresley
    Senior Member
    • Jun 2011
    • 115

    Columbia University Medical Center Abstract

    Guys please let me know what you think about this article and abstract:

    is a fake or true ?

    thanks for comments and info about it.

  • locke999
    Senior Member
    • Jul 2013
    • 158

    #2
    What are you trying to ask? Is what true?

    This article is saying the same thing we have been hearing for months. That is, they can initially grow hair outside the body but it stops growing because they have not been able to perfectly reproduce (impossible imo) the environment of the body inside test tubes in order to grow those cells.

    So from my understanding they are getting better at growing hair in vitro which is outside the body (in test tubes or whatever medium, they use to nourish the cells) , but it is nowhere near being optimized enough so that they are consistently growing complete cells that will grow healthy dark thick hair to be transplanted onto your head.

    In conclusion, a hair loss cure coming from growing / cloning cells that grows hair is still years away.

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    • Arashi
      Senior Member
      • Aug 2012
      • 3888

      #3
      Originally posted by elvispresley
      Guys please let me know what you think about this article and abstract:

      is a fake or true ?

      thanks for comments and info about it.

      http://www.pnas.org/content/early/20...7-8318f6f3bf92
      Hehe I take it you haven't been very active this year ? This was the breakthrough news of 2013. Unfortunately the current Dp cell expension method is not good enough to retain all gene expression, only 22% was left, so although this was enough to generate hair, the hair was not cosmetically useful (thin, colour missing etc). It needs to be optimized before clinical trials can start. And nobody can predict when that will happen ...

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      • hellouser
        Senior Member
        • May 2012
        • 4419

        #4
        Old news as far as I know. And definitely legit as its got Jahoda's name behind it.

        Doesn't matter whats in the article until they actually start executing a procedure in which we can take advantage of.

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        • elvispresley
          Senior Member
          • Jun 2011
          • 115

          #5
          Thanks to everybody for the punctual answers.

          we can close the topic.

          this is how the community should be very efficient.

          thanks

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