Input from experts?

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I find all the news on DP cell culturing pretty hopeful and interesting, but I think too many people are jumping the gun on calling it a near solution to baldness. One thing that seems to be a huge hurdle is how to get a properly cycling head of hair. Say DP cells are harvested from the donor and then re-implanted (as they are doing in taiwan), how do they make sure that you are not growing and losing all those follicles at the same time? Also, when a hair transplant is done, a large piece of surrounding tissue is inserted with the follicle. How do we know that the surrounding environment will accommodate a healthy new follicle? also, how are these researchers making sure that the follicles grow in the right direction? Nylon guide wires like Tsuji used don't seem to be a great solution when we're talking about thousands of follicles and not just a few. I think that jahoda et al have a pretty good idea of how much more work needs to be done, and teams like the taiwanese are kind of jumping the gun. probably they are only implanting a few follicles to see what happens. I'm pretty sure all these issues can be overcome, but I think we're talking about a decade more of research before real trials can even start.

I do think that the effective creation of cosmetic new follicles using stem cells is not more than 20 years away, and for some of the younger people, that may be useful. Has anyone tried to contact tsuji labs? according to their last press release they should be on track to start trials with their bioengineered follicle. I think this method shows the most immediate promise as a better form of a hair transplant with unlimited follicles. That iron man dude on here made absolutely no sense in his analysis, tsuji has proven they can grow several cycling terminal human hairs already, and i'm sure the ability to create both epithelial and DP cell cultures from stem cells will aid them in their perfection of their method.

would really love to hear a hair scientist's opinion on all this, especially someone from tsuji or jahoda's team. is anyone in contact with these guys? It would save people on this forum a lot of time, and all the speculation by so called "experts" on here. The science is so so close, it's frustrating, the problem is life and hair go by so fast, that in terms of our experience, we might still be among the last generations to have to just deal with losing our hair. At the very least we're gonna have to pay a lot of money for the stem cell therapies that become approved. I'm pretty positive that 30-50 years down the line, there will be an easy genetic fix.

If you work in hair science, please chime in! or if you have contact with any of the big teams, let's see if we can get some kind of real expert analysis of the situation.....