Dr.Angela Christiano

[johnsmith]

while I have no idea whether a real cure will materialize...

That's exactly right. You have no idea, which was my original point.

I wouldn't count on new hair in the next five or even ten years...

Nor would I, but we can hope we're wrong.

...but it's not far away for sure.

You may hope that it's not far away, as many of us do, but back to the original point that you restated, you have no idea whether a real cure will materialize or not. Meanwhile, viable human cloning is so close to reality that most world governments banned all funding for it to slow down the science to give the ethical debates more time to catch up. In contrast, there is obviously a very long way to go before a viable hair restoration process is realized, approved and sold.

Maybe in another 30 years, someone else will be along to say, "Well, we're getting closer all the time! Prospects have never looked this great! Just 2 to 5 more years and we'll have this disease cured!"

When a real cure comes along, we'll all know it and no one will have to debate the "we're almost there!" timelines in this forum while we watch "2 to 5 years" elapse over and over again without a legitimate cure brought to the market.