US government owned patent on hair follicle neogensis

[lacazette]

Thank you Renee, really interesting !!

It tells they found the methods to make functional hair follicle!

" a need exists for methods and compositions capable of generating morphologically-correct, fully-developed, non-immunogenic human hair follicles. Such methods and compositions would be useful for treating conditions such as full- or partial-thickness skin loss, wounds, burns, scars, and hair loss. The present invention fills these needs by providing cellular compositions capable of hair growth, neogenesis, and regeneration"

"The present invention provides compositions in the form of skin substitutes and microspheres comprising neural crest-derived mesencymal cells, wherein the skin substitute is capable of inducing hair follicles that are morphologically-correct and are useful in any application requiring hair follicle formation/neogenesis, or in any condition where hair follicle formation/neogenesis is desired. "

"hair follicles that are morphologically-correct "

It's a really good thing that US army work on that HF neogenesis, they have unlimited money and we know many of inventions were used by army before and then came mainstream.

And as we can see in this link, army begin trial soon for 3D printed skin (skin with sweat glands, appropriate pigmentation, and hair follicles)

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-armys-bioprinted-skin-is-almost-ready-to-be-used-on-soldiers

gives hope!

[Renee]

Here is the latest patent by the same group filed in 2014.

https://www.google.com/patents/WO2014179559A1?cl=en&dq=ininventor:%22Thomas+N.+Darling%22&ei=CxeeVYjYFseyogTC-YHwBg

[Renee]

https://www.google.com/patents/EP2582791A2?cl=en&dq=hair+follicle+neogenesis&hl=en&sa=X&ei=qhCeVZbQLsGoogSv06joBg&ved=0CBwQ6AEwAA