Dr. Cotsarelis New Discovery that may finally cure Baldness (June 3rd, 2013)

[Westonci]

http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2013/0...dness-therapy/

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...0602144327.htm

I think this is the real deal. Fingers crossed!

[hellouser]

Someone should pay Cotsarelis a visit with a swift kick in the ass and tell him to hurry the ****** up.

[Thinning87]

I'm sure they are working on it...

[KJ1982]

Very exciting stuff. It's taking time but with each new piece of information, no matter how slight, it's another step in the right direction...

[Westonci]

Very exciting stuff. It's taking time but with each new piece of information, no matter how slight, it's another step in the right direction...

This is a very exciting! This solves the mystery of the WNT induced hair regeneration after wounding they announced in 2007


Circa 2007
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V64ht1r8APo

[KJ1982]

Of course, the fact that the next step is using "a specific, well-known and studied drug" makes it all the more exciting; should it prove successful then, hopefully, it would mean that it could potentially be a lot sooner in becoming a commercial product due to not having to undergo trials specific to the drug.

Of course, that's a far off and not yet guaranteed possibility but fingers crossed...

[rdawg]

Alright so i should just cut off a layer of skin, inject this stuff and voila my hair is back!

no but really this sounds promising, and any good news no matter how far the product may be away is still great.

They are figuring it out, it's taking far, far too long, but people are putting in work to get this solved.

What I can hope is they discover something that we can actually get our hands on, rather than some kind of injection or weird protein we cant touch.

[The Alchemist]

I guess Follica's going to rewind the tape back to 2008 and start over.

Nice to see that they are definitively saying they can create "new" hair follicles. Which is a much better starting point than where they began with the lithium wounding approach. Let's hope that they have good success with a commercially available compound!

The do it yourself'ers need to get cracking on Fgf9 drugs!

[TravisB]

I wonder if they actually succeded to grow completely new fully matured cosmetically significant hairs, or only something "hair-like", for example vellus hairs.

These companies like to brag for nothing