Quorum Sensing : pluck hair to regenerate growth

[hellouser]

Well, there is a reason scientists test on mice, because, believe it or not their biology is very close to humans.

Yeah? Well when it comes to HAIR, their biology isnt close to humans. If it was, we wouldnt have been bald after about 100 'breakthrough' discoveries about how to make hair grow on mice.

I'll be impressed when they test ANY of these discoveries on humans. Until then, close the damn book.

[jamesst11]

Hey guys! this research emphasizes how the scientists extracted hairs ONE BY ONE, in a SMALL circular area that was about .5 cm! (remember there are about 2.5 cm in an inch, so this is pretty small)... other ways they repeated the experiment, utilizing to large of an area, didn't yield results at all. This is the essence of this study, specificity in the size and extraction method. The body is amazingly complicated, we all know this. The feedback pathways and signaling responses are things that often times we can't fully understand. There was SOMETHING about this method though that seemed to trigger a response that led to strong hair growth. If the study is correct, then waxing large regions, or plucking eyebrows, has nothing to do with it.

[youngin]

A point worth emphasizing that many people seem to forget.

They arent experimenting on mice with MPB though.

[walrus]

Yeah? Well when it comes to HAIR, their biology isnt close to humans.

Claims the armchair expert. The scientists have been wrong all along.

[Terry Mancini]

Come off it lads. The last time I looked Mice have a coat of fur.

This reminds of the time when the Mrs freaked out when she spotted a mouse in the kitchen. It took me a good 2 hours to corner the thing but when I finally did, I noticed how cute and fluffy it looked. I picked it up, stroked it, and since then, Rufus has become my best friend and lives in my pocket.

Mice may have close to human biology, but I dont care what any brain box says. the thing walks around with a coat thicker than than an inmate of a Russian Gulag.

[noisette]

Hahaha you are great Terry, really funny

[Terry Mancini]

hahaha cheers noisette. The sad truth though is that this balding lark has totally done my head in, and I mean more than just the disused bird nest hairstyle.

Even if the plucking technique was to work, it would be no good to me. My bald patch is so large that for a plucked hair to signal another, it would have t overcome the speed of light barrier

I have a feeling I may either be waiting a long time, or need to stick my head into a worm hole

[Seuxin]

This process is similar to that used in humans by Liu :-)

Ha Ha Ha, Dr Liu.......

[noisette]

hahaha cheers noisette. The sad truth though is that this balding lark has totally done my head in, and I mean more than just the disused bird nest hairstyle.

Even if the plucking technique was to work, it would be no good to me. My bald patch is so large that for a plucked hair to signal another, it would have t overcome the speed of light barrier

I have a feeling I may either be waiting a long time, or need to stick my head into a worm hole

Hahaha I hope not, but perhaps you will be interesting in Doctor Wesley's technique called Piloscopy. you can read a thread here about this...

[burtandernie]

I dont know its kind of sad we are talking about plucking hairs in 2015 in hopes of regrowing some barely cosmetic significant amount of hair if it even does anything. 25 years since propecia and we are plucking hairs as a cutting edge treatment? The whole idea of this sounds kind of silly to me.
Mice are close to humans biologically? I thought they used mice because there was nothing cheaper or better that was as common. I would think stump tailed macaques would be much more near a human biologically and genetically but probably more expensive and harder to get a hold of.