Good news! Kyocera teams with Riken (Dr.Tsuji)

[kuba197]

http://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Companies/Kyocera-to-join-hair-regeneration-research-project

[kuba197]

http://global.kyocera.com/news/2016/0702_nfid.html

[Swooping]

This is really excellent news guys. Real hope right there imo !

[allTheGoodNamesAreTaken]

If human trials actually do begin in 2020 that'd be pretty decent. 2020 isn't that far away.

[FooFighter]

This is still 10 years away ( if ever have some good results). Guys, don’t forget that mice is totally different than human bald head.

[dm90]

Wait don't they make those cell phones?

[FooFighter]

Yes, but they also make other equipment. Probably they will try to make high quality equipment for Dr.Tsuji and make his tretmant far more effective and far less expensive to produce.

[dm90]

Hope its better than their cell phones

[Trouse5858]

I Really want to be optimistic but I just don't think this thing will be commercially available in 3.5 years. Humans have been around for a tiny fraction of a blink of an eye relative to other life and we were all born in a time where technology has allowed everyone to be seamlessly connected at all times. But damn, what I would give to have been born 20 years later and just avoid this mess altogether.

[dm90]

Human clinical trials will start in 3.5 years. We're looking at maybe 2026? who know those. The important thing is that this is the most promising potential treatment for guys with extensive loss.

[FooFighter]

I Really want to be optimistic but I just don't think this thing will be commercially available in 3.5 years. Humans have been around for a tiny fraction of a blink of an eye relative to other life and we were all born in a time where technology has allowed everyone to be seamlessly connected at all times. But damn, what I would give to have been born 20 years later and just avoid this mess altogether.

True. Guys who are born now or have 10 years will be much happy in their lives, because probably they will have far better and effective hair loss treatments. Not only hair loss treatments, but also teeth or heart failure treatments. With other words, in next 20 years if you have enough money and wish you will also look very good.

[willy31]

Do you think this technology will be effective for guys without hair (egg head) / all hair cycles exhausted ?

[dm90]

If this works, assuming you have hair on the back of your head, then yes. Its, at its most basic level, is hair cloning I believe. Theoretically they would just clone enough hair to cover your scalp and implant it. Problem solved

[willy31]

But... I have nothing hair. Zero hair! I lost all because I took bad medicaments during many years at very high dose. Diffuse alopecia + extreme miniaturization of hair... to total baldness!


This treatment could it still be effective for me and other guys who have NOTHING hair?

[allTheGoodNamesAreTaken]

But... I have nothing hair. Zero hair! I lost all because I took bad medicaments during many years at very high dose. Diffuse alopecia + extreme miniaturization of hair... to total baldness!


This treatment could it still be effective for me and other guys who have NOTHING hair?

According to that graphic, they want to start with epithelial stem cells and mesenchymal stem cells from the back of your head where the follicles should be more resistant. Your follicles are miniaturized, but they should still exist, all I've ever read is that they don't go away completely. So you still have what sounds like is needed to grow new follicles.