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Researchers have grown the world’s first hair follicle using stem cells
Berlin researchers have grown the world’s first hair follicle using stem cells, giving hope to both the bald and animal rights activists around the world, a media report said Tuesday.
The hair follicle created by bioengineers at the capital’s Technical University (TU) is somewhat thinner than a normal scalp follicle, but will provide both hair implant possibilities and end the need for millions of animal tests in the future, daily Die Welt said.
Created by bioengineer and doctor Roland Lauster and his team, the hair follicle can be used to research the causes of hair loss, and may also be used for more effective implants than hair plugs – after clinical studies, of course.
“Preparations for this are already in motion,” Lauster told Die Welt.
Additional purposes may include research on hair growth, structure and pigmentation, as well as the effects of toxic substances.
Nanoparticles enter the skin through hair follicles, thus the new invention could tap into the enormous cosmetic testing market, which has seen the number of animal experiments explode in recent years, the paper said.
“Since 1950, the development of new chemicals has gone up 500-fold, and so has the number of animal tests for the licensing of these,” Lauster said.
Skin and hair follicles created in a lab could replace the need for test animals, the paper wrote.
The professor plans to team up with Dr. Uwe Marx to establish a hair follicle test system, then move on to creating a miniature liver, kidney and bone marrow to form a multi-organ biochip to test pharmaceutical and cosmetic substances.
The biochip, to be created at the Fraunhofer Institute for Material and Beam Technology, will enable the cells and mini-organs to work together in a closed circuit.
“Building large organs such as complete livers or kidneys has not yet worked, but miniature organs have,” Lauster told the paper.
In the future, hundreds of these biochips could be used to “quickly and safely” test the toxic effects of hundreds of substances, he added.
http://www.thelocal.de/sci-tech/20101214-31797.html
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Is there anymore information on this? This is incredible news!!!
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Sounds great. I hope this is true information. If it is, then there should be some press releass in the near future. Let's all keep our fingers crossed.
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Spencer, if you are reading this, can you please try to get Professor Roland Lauster to join you as a guest on your radio show?
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Prof. Dr. Roland Lauster
Originally Posted by Don'tDoIt
Spencer, if you are reading this, can you please try to get Professor Roland Lauster to join you as a guest on your radio show?
At first they were able to "breed" skin tissue by using hair follicle stem cells. NOW they're able to "breed" a complete skin (with all layers) including all the natural skin-appendages, like blood vessels, nerves, sweat- and sebaceous glands - and finally, including entire hair follicles. That means they're able to “breed” a COMPLETE SKIN including all natural appendages.
This is THE man behind this project - Prof. Dr. Roland Lauster:
http://bcrt.charite.de/index.php?id=391
BTW - They also have the technology to produce this stuff in large quantities (see news articles below):
http://www.medbt.tu-berlin.de/
Now they claim to be "ready“ for clinical trails, e.g. to test whether or not the in the lab grown follicles grow in the human scalp etc.
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Originally Posted by Don'tDoIt
Spencer, if you are reading this, can you please try to get Professor Roland Lauster to join you as a guest on your radio show?
*cough*
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Is this the real deal this time? Can we "dance in the streets"'?
http://www.hulu.com/watch/28999
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When was this news first posted because I get page not found. Is this one of those news stories from like 3 years ago? I think this kind of stuff helps more just by speeding up testing and research more then anything. Its the huge time delays to do everything like get through FDA
I wish each post had a time/date on it because I hate when someone bumps some old thread and you cant tell if its something from 10 years ago or something really new
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