Report from Japanese side of Replicel - stem cell law in force at last

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Shiseido has not released any details regarding their pending trial. I am hoping they enhance the protocol, but don't know. I have mentioned before that Shiseido has done prior research and had a patent regarding the use of DS cell culturing. Shiseido will also be presenting on March 20th, topic being "Use of human induced pluripotent stem cells for the generation of hair inductive dermal cells". Maybe they know how to culture DSC cells more effectively.

RepliCels delays are becoming annoying. Phase I/IIa results were poor. One of them need to start trials and see if they can improve or not so we can put this behind us. In the end if this even works, RepliCel is years away from USA/Europe. Therefore ideally Shiseido starts ASAP.

http://www.replicel.com/replicel-lif...stry-meetings/

It will be interesting to see if Shiseido can find a way to retain inductivity when cultering DSC cells. I don't know if any of you recall but a very knowledgeable researcher, Dr Aaron Gardner, was posting on here for a time and while some of the research groups had been able to attain inductivity of DP cells of up to 60%, no one had been able to attain any inductivity for DSC cells......meaning the DSC cells lost all of their hair growing characteristics when cultered. Here is the link if anyone is interested: http://www.baldtruthtalk.com/showthr...ighlight=pgd21. Not sure why this thread went silent.