US government owned patent on hair follicle neogensis

[lacazette]

And also the 'internet' lol

[jpar]

COMPUTERS...ENIAC, the first electronic computer, GPS, penicilin, modern day air travel, nylon, canned food, personal drones, duct tape, and the microwave lol...

[Dimoxynil]

So what's on the common market already which was initially a US military concept

[lacazette]

good Renee
AFIRM will have an overall budget of about $250 million for the initial five-year period, of which about $80 million will be provided by the Defense Department, Schoomaker said. Other program funding will be provided by the National Institutes of Health, in Bethesda, Md., the Department of Veterans Affairs, and local public and private matching funding.
Rutgers University, in N.J.; Wake Forest University, in N.C.; and the University of Pittsburgh also will participate in the initiative.

Wake Forest

@Slam

they already throw 'unlimited money', not for hair but to find that new functional skin. And as I mentioned the crucial point they were missed for that, is the follicle neogenesis that lead to functional HF
(and so that logically lead also to hairloss solutions)

[gion]

Spot on, Renee, and I am not even an american! Improved hope wont kill you, especially in this rare case of no scam suspicions. May they at least improve the lives of their soldiers!

[hellouser]

I disagree with your comment. Why are you so negative? The army wants to help soldiers who have burned skin problems returning from war. Hair follicles is a essential to have normal looking skin.

Or even hiding the scars if they're on the head.

[Renee]

I disagree with your comment. Why are you so negative? The army wants to help soldiers who have burned skin problems returning from war. Hair follicles is a essential to have normal looking skin.

[Slam1523]

Back in 2008 US military invested 250 million dollars in a new entity to research regenerative medicine, since then 2 patents have been filed and there is a clinical trial going on for hair loss:


WASHINGTON (AFIS, April 18, 2008) - The Defense Department launched a five-year, Army-led cooperative effort to leverage cutting-edge medical technology to develop new ways to assist servicemembers who've suffered severe, disfiguring wounds during their wartime service.

The newly established Armed Forces Institute of Regenerative Medicine, known by the acronym AFIRM, will serve as the military's operational agency for the effort, Dr. S. Ward Casscells, the assistant secretary of defense for health affairs, told reporters at a Pentagon news conference yesterday.

A key component of the initiative is to harness stem cell research and technology in finding innovative ways to use a patient's natural cellular structure to reconstruct new skin, muscles and tendons, and even ears, noses and fingers, Casscells said.

Just more than 900 U.S. servicemembers have undergone amputations of some kind due to injuries suffered in wartime service in Afghanistan or Iraq, Casscells said. Other troops have been badly burned or suffered spinal cord injuries or significant vision loss.

"Getting these people up to where they are functioning and reintegrated, employed, (and) able to help their families and be fully participating members of society" is the task at hand in which AFIRM will play a major role, Casscells said.

AFIRM will fall under the auspices of the U.S. Army Medical Research and Material Command, based at Fort Detrick, Md., and it also will work in conjunction with U.S. Army Institute of Surgical Research, in San Antonio.

The Medical Research and Material Command is the Army's lead medical research, development and related-material acquisition agency. It comes under U.S. Army Medical Command, which is led by Lt. Gen. Eric B. Schoomaker, the Army's surgeon general. Schoomaker accompanied Casscells at the news conference.

"The cells that we're talking about actually exist in our bodies today," Schoomaker pointed out. "We, even as adults, possess in our bodies small quantities of cells which have the potential, under the right kind of stimulation, to become any one of a number of different kinds of cells.

For example, Schoomaker said, the human body routinely regenerates bone marrow or liver cells.

AFIRM will have an overall budget of about $250 million for the initial five-year period, of which about $80 million will be provided by the Defense Department, Schoomaker said. Other program funding will be provided by the National Institutes of Health, in Bethesda, Md., the Department of Veterans Affairs, and local public and private matching funding.

Rutgers University, in N.J.; Wake Forest University, in N.C.; and the University of Pittsburgh also will participate in the initiative.

Dr. Anthony Atala, a surgeon and director of the Institute for Regenerative Medicine at Wake Forest, also attended the news conference. Atala's current research keys on growing new human cells and tissue.

"All the parts of your body, tissues and organs, have a natural repository of cells that are ready to replicate when an injury occurs," Atala told reporters.

Medical technicians now can select cells from human donors and, through a series of scientific processes, can "regrow" new tissue, Atala said.

"Then, you can plant that (regenerated tissue) back into the same patient, thus avoiding rejection," Atala said.

Special techniques are being developed to employ regrown tissue in the fabrication of new muscles and tendons, Atala observed, or for the repair/replacement of damaged or missing extremities such as noses, ears and fingers.

Continued advancement in regenerative medicine would greatly benefit those servicemembers and veterans who've been severely scarred by war, Schoomaker said.

The three-star general cited animals like salamanders that can regrow lost tails or limbs. "Why can't a mammal do the same thing'" he asked.

Bottom line is sure money is invested into concepts, but the main focus obviously isn't hair, and you don't know just how much of that investment is going towards hair. They certainly aren't going to throw "unlimited amounts of money" at hair until they get it right... Look at our investments in companies like solyndra... What came from it? Did they keep it afloat until it panned out? All I'm saying is be reasonable, we can hope but realistically this doesn't mean substantially more than any of the claims other large companies have made regarding their hair research...

[Renee]

One of their focuses
Skin Injury Treatment
Prevent wound infection and afford for an environment conducive to skin regeneration
Prevent inflammation following burn injury and prevent subsequent injury progression
Speed generation of a viable wound bed and reduce reharvest time of autograft donor sites
Enhance the ability of autologous cells and tissues to cover larger surface areas
Improve the quality and function of skin substitutes for burn wound grafting (i.e. elastic and pigmented and possessing sweat glands and hair follicles) when autografts are not immediately available
Primarily prevent and secondarily manage scars

[Renee]

http://www.afirm.mil

[Renee]

Back in 2008 US military invested 250 million dollars in a new entity to research regenerative medicine, since then 2 patents have been filed and there is a clinical trial going on for hair loss:


WASHINGTON (AFIS, April 18, 2008) - The Defense Department launched a five-year, Army-led cooperative effort to leverage cutting-edge medical technology to develop new ways to assist servicemembers who've suffered severe, disfiguring wounds during their wartime service.

The newly established Armed Forces Institute of Regenerative Medicine, known by the acronym AFIRM, will serve as the military's operational agency for the effort, Dr. S. Ward Casscells, the assistant secretary of defense for health affairs, told reporters at a Pentagon news conference yesterday.

A key component of the initiative is to harness stem cell research and technology in finding innovative ways to use a patient's natural cellular structure to reconstruct new skin, muscles and tendons, and even ears, noses and fingers, Casscells said.

Just more than 900 U.S. servicemembers have undergone amputations of some kind due to injuries suffered in wartime service in Afghanistan or Iraq, Casscells said. Other troops have been badly burned or suffered spinal cord injuries or significant vision loss.

"Getting these people up to where they are functioning and reintegrated, employed, (and) able to help their families and be fully participating members of society" is the task at hand in which AFIRM will play a major role, Casscells said.

AFIRM will fall under the auspices of the U.S. Army Medical Research and Material Command, based at Fort Detrick, Md., and it also will work in conjunction with U.S. Army Institute of Surgical Research, in San Antonio.

The Medical Research and Material Command is the Army's lead medical research, development and related-material acquisition agency. It comes under U.S. Army Medical Command, which is led by Lt. Gen. Eric B. Schoomaker, the Army's surgeon general. Schoomaker accompanied Casscells at the news conference.

"The cells that we're talking about actually exist in our bodies today," Schoomaker pointed out. "We, even as adults, possess in our bodies small quantities of cells which have the potential, under the right kind of stimulation, to become any one of a number of different kinds of cells.

For example, Schoomaker said, the human body routinely regenerates bone marrow or liver cells.

AFIRM will have an overall budget of about $250 million for the initial five-year period, of which about $80 million will be provided by the Defense Department, Schoomaker said. Other program funding will be provided by the National Institutes of Health, in Bethesda, Md., the Department of Veterans Affairs, and local public and private matching funding.

Rutgers University, in N.J.; Wake Forest University, in N.C.; and the University of Pittsburgh also will participate in the initiative.

Dr. Anthony Atala, a surgeon and director of the Institute for Regenerative Medicine at Wake Forest, also attended the news conference. Atala's current research keys on growing new human cells and tissue.

"All the parts of your body, tissues and organs, have a natural repository of cells that are ready to replicate when an injury occurs," Atala told reporters.

Medical technicians now can select cells from human donors and, through a series of scientific processes, can "regrow" new tissue, Atala said.

"Then, you can plant that (regenerated tissue) back into the same patient, thus avoiding rejection," Atala said.

Special techniques are being developed to employ regrown tissue in the fabrication of new muscles and tendons, Atala observed, or for the repair/replacement of damaged or missing extremities such as noses, ears and fingers.

Continued advancement in regenerative medicine would greatly benefit those servicemembers and veterans who've been severely scarred by war, Schoomaker said.

The three-star general cited animals like salamanders that can regrow lost tails or limbs. "Why can't a mammal do the same thing'" he asked.

[nohawk]

Hopefully the skin grafts can help that poor idiot that derma rolled his scalp into ground beef.... donkey-hair...

[jpar]

one of the first questions I'm going to ask is "what is the stock market symbol for the company thats going to market this" lol shit if its a penny stock right now, omfg

[lacazette]

Yes we have the most complicated type of hairloss and we are millions hehe! if it works for us, it'll work for others whatever the causes

[jpar]

the trial says explicitly this is for people with androgenic alopecia, if you have anything else your not eligible to participate