8th World Congress For Hair Research - Korea (2014)

[Arashi]

Thanks for the info Desmond and indeed what a great year 2014 is already ! By the way, many people thought of 2013 as a shitty year and I can of course understand why, given the disppointments from the companies out there, BUT I still think it was a great year too: if we look back in several years when we all have our hair back, we will still see Jahoda's breakthrough in 2013 as THE main event that got us there ! It marked the beginning of the end of hairloss !

[BoSox]

Also Desmond, in your opinion does this open up new doors for treatments for thinning while we wait for the cure to be out?

[BoSox]

Big thanks to you Des for keeping us updated, and also thanks to those working on a cure. More competition is good for us. Hair loss, your days are numbered.

[Desmond84]

VERY EXCITING NEWS

Hey guys, the abstract titles for this year's Hair congress just got announced and some of these talks look absolutely ground breaking. Here's the TOP SIX presentations that I picked out which show 6 different research teams cracking the DP culturing problems, while another team has found what makes the DP cells in the MPB zone so different to the permanent zone. It's also interesting to note that these 6 teams are NOT part of the Chinese or Taiwanese teams we already knew about.

It seems that this beast is about to be cracked I will post more information once more information is published. Science is finally giving us the answers we were waiting for

Here are the titles:

1) P032: GENOME-WIDE EXPRESSION PROFILE ANLYSIS OF 3D CULTURED DERMAL PAPILLA CELLS FROM ANDROGENIC ALOPECIA PATIENTS
Weixin Fan

2) P081 (WS3): DERMAL-EPIDERMAL INTERACTIONS IN 3D CULTURE RESTORE MARKERS OF DERMAL PAPILLA INDUCTIVITY
Aaron Gardner

3) P082 (WS3): 3D MICRO HAIR FOLLICLE CULTURE IN A DYNAMIC CHIP BIOREACTOR
Beren Atac

4) P202 (SY10): REPROGRAMMING REGULAR SKIN FIBROBLASTS INTO HAIR INDUCING DERMAL PAPILLA CELLS
Carlos Clavel

5) P221 (FC6): ENHANCING EXPRESSION OF HAIR INDUCTION MARKERS IN HUMAN DERMAL PAPILLA CELLS
ARP Sari

6) P228 (SY3): OPTIMIZED PREPARATION OF DERMAL PAPILLA CELL (DP) AND DERMAL SHEATH CELL (DS) CONSTRUCT FOR HAIR REGENERATION
Koji Kanayama

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On a side note, the third title points out to growing hair germs (microtissues) in a bioreactor to maturations prior to transplantation. Sounds very cool!

What a great year so far A big thumbs up to all these researchers working towards a final cure.