Derivation of Hair-Inducing Cell from Human Pluripotent Stem Cells

[joachim]

also, what i don't understand:
those russian research team was only talking about DP cells derived from iPS but why is nobody talking about epithelial cells which are often said to be very important to team up with DP cells for creating a follicle. if you remember, Dr. Xu achieved this breakthrough, creating epithelial cells from iPS but he mentioned the second important cell type for forming a follicle, the DP cells creation from iPS is still not figured out.
so could this also be a reason why effiency or inductive capability was not as desired?
what is the connection to the epithelial cells? did they even think about epithelial cells or did they just inject the DP cells into the skin? this is all very confusing because we already heard that DP cells alone are capable to trigger hair follicle formation. (as well as DSC cells according to replicel). so it seems that those cells are all capable of inducing follicles on their own, but some researchers insist that there has to be communication between different cell types, so they have to be combined.

we really need to reach out to Dr. Xu to get his opinion on it. don't you agree? sdsurfin, are you still in contact with him or is the connection broken?