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    Lightbulb Does this bristly mouse hold the secret cure to baldness?

    Scientists from the Tokyo University of Science took two types of skin stem cell, which together contain all the instructions for a hair follicle, and grew them in the lab until they formed immature follicles.

    These were then implanted on the backs of hairless mice and, within two to three weeks, they sprouted hairs. The technique was also used to grow whiskers.

    Excitingly, the mice also grew tufts of hair when human stem cells, gleaned from the scalp of a balding man were used, the journal Nature Communications reports.

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...-baldness.html

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    PUBLISHED: 17:24 GMT, 17 April 2012
    Great share! Good find, gmonasco.

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    "And within a decade, the treatment could be in widespread use."

    oh really within a decade!sorry man but this article is a non-sense.

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    Bear in mind that the Daily Mail is the British equivalent of Fox News.

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    Does this bristly mouse hold the secret cure to baldness?
    If scientists have discovered it and published about it, it isn't really a "secret cure," is it?

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    Here's more info on the scientist(s) behind the research:

    http://en.acnnewswire.com/press-rele...i-succeeds-in-

    http://www.tsuji-lab.com/en/research/organ/hair.html

    Another look at those mouse hairs:


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    this ain't a cure.... they're simply multiplying follicles and implanting them back to your scalp. Nobody needs BRAND NEW follicles. Just revive existing ones

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    They should have given the little fella a mohawk for the lulz. That is all.

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    Quote Originally Posted by 2020 View Post
    this ain't a cure.... they're simply multiplying follicles and implanting them back to your scalp. Nobody needs BRAND NEW follicles. Just revive existing ones
    Nobody? What about people with scaring alopecia or burns?

    Yeah I thought you were wrong!

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    Quote Originally Posted by gc83uk View Post
    Nobody? What about people with scaring alopecia or burns?

    Yeah I thought you were wrong!
    Well said.

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