Are we sure we need whole new follicles?

[hellouser]

We still have all our hairs, we just lack the progenitor cells to make grow to full length. This is what Garza's research has proven already. People dont seem to be able to grasp it though. Growing new follicles is for burn vicitims etc who have lost there follicles. People are supporting the wrong cause, we should be supporting MPB related research.

But nothing has ever worked to restore progenitor cells and make follicles grow terminal hairs. You may as well kill two birds with one stone via stem cell route and creating brand new follicles.

[nameless]

But nothing has ever worked to restore progenitor cells and make follicles grow terminal hairs. You may as well kill two birds with one stone via stem cell route and creating brand new follicles.

And if you do whole follicles you get back to the old issue of direction and stuff like that. Your hair may not look natural when all is said and done.

[nameless]

You know what it is...why I started this thread - the suspense of what is going to come out of the 2014 Hair Loss Congress is really eating at me. Is anyone else sitting on pins-and-needles...wishing the darn thing would happen so we can find out if they have overcome the trichogenicity issue or not? This waiting is like some kind of trichogenicity water-torture. And we have 7 white-knuckle weeks to go.

[HairlossAt15]

There has been other situations where progenitor cells has been restored in other diseases. If they were able to restore function then we would get our hair back to the way it was before the disease and cycling as normal. New follicles could be different color/length/curly/straight and inconsistent etc.