Anthony Atala did this years ago.
Human lung created in the lab
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is this guy for real? 300 years until a cure? this guy is Hellrouserx1000 with his negative posts. You cant even say his timelines are anything even remotely realistic.
todays world is nothing like what it was 50 years ago. In 50 years technology will make todays latest tech look like rocks. But you somehow can see 300 years off? Im not even mad because im one of these posters desperately believing a cure is right around the corner. But 300 years. get bent.
if you think its 300 years off what are you even on here for? oh to enlighten the rest of us? its your good deed I guess.
Ill check back in 2314. see you guys in a bit. good thing time travel will be around by the time HL is cured so Ill just have my great great great great grandson jump back and cure me. This guy is nuts.
Also, perhaps we have different ideas of what really constitutes a "cure". I think in the coming 20-30 years, we'll have much better treatments than finasteride/minoxidil that halt hair loss completely in almost all patients while regrowing hair in a majority and having little side-effects. Also, I expect HT techniques to improve tremendously. This will allow an NW3 to become an NW0 with an HT and maintain this hair with these medications and risk no side-effects. I don't consider that a real "cure". A real cure is a non-invasive one time procedure that turns an NW7 to an NW0 where all the hair are completely 100% resistant to DHT. That is something we won't see for several lifetimes to come.Comment
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Not sure what you mean ? Jahoda grew hair on human skin, albeit on transplanted human foreskin on SCID mice, but that serves as a very accurate model.Comment
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There is already one gene therapy approved by the EMA (Glyberia). But somehow it will take 300 years to have a gene thereapy for hair?Comment
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But gene therapy is not the answer here. Why go messing around with genes when we can just bio-generate hair like Jahoda and Tsuji have been doing ? We're almost there ...Comment
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I dont really agree with most of this and it makes no difference since we all are essentially guessing. No more treatments in our life times? CB 03 01 is in trials as we speak and less then a year for acne dont see some big reason why MPB wont pan out although it could. So I guess I dont have such a pessimistic view point.Comment
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Of course it's guessing, but we can do it educated. We already know the recipe for the cure, it's already been shown to work, we just need a way to get enough of the ingredients (DP cells). Jahoda's method of culturing them needs improvement, he already made several suggestions in his paper which he thought would improve his method, things that made a lot of sense. The organ regenerative field is making enormous progress, clinical trials are starting now or have been starting lately in tons of related fields (like biogenerated skin and IPS cells) and people are even already walking around with stem cell lab generated organs (trachea's) since a few years now. It's an accumulative process which is going faster and faster. Of course nobody can exactly pinpoint when it will be done, but if you think it wont happen in our lifetime, then you're either 95 years old, suicidal or you're just ignoring all progressComment
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Just to clarify, lol, I've never made projections of how long a cure would take. Nobody knows. I'm kind of with the mindset with Spencer Kobren; it'll get here when it gets here. What I am pissed off about though, is all the red tape and the snail pace progress. You want to take shots at me you may want to get your facts straight first. On *** I've clearly stated in another thread that it could be 3 years or it could be 30 years. None of us has a crystal ball.Comment
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Again, until he has demonstrated to the scientific community 90%+ hair regrowth in all his test subjects, he doesn't have a "cure".Comment
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That's still very different beast than growing hair on a human skull. Histogen and Replicel had amazing laboratory techniques and breakthroughs, but ended up proving the skeptical scientific community in the end by showing it simply can't be grown out of a human skull with any meaningful results.
Again, until he has demonstrated to the scientific community 90%+ hair regrowth in all his test subjects, he doesn't have a "cure".Comment
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For baldness, we have no idea what combination of genes causes it, and there's no reason to think we will anytime soon. Also, there's no reason to think that even if we do, we'll instantly know which genes to manipulate without causing a real permanent damage.
The fact you think Glybera means gene therapy as a whole is just around the corner demonstrates your complete lack of understanding of the problems and genetics as a whole.Comment
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Practically every scientist and doctor not working in this field would agree with me. You think they have no clue of what they are talking about as well?Comment
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That's still very different beast than growing hair on a human skull. Histogen and Replicel had amazing laboratory techniques and breakthroughs, but ended up proving the skeptical scientific community in the end by showing it simply can't be grown out of a human skull with any meaningful results.Comment
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