50 years ago, the late cancer researcher Charles Breedis was taking a scalpel to the backs of rabbits at a University of Pennsylvania lab. Under a grant by the National Cancer Institute, he was investigating the link between healing and the Shope papilloma virus, a carcinogenic pathogen similar to HPV in humans .. Dr. Breedis had observed the first recorded instance of follicular neogenesis, a phenomenon in which new, fully functioning hair organs develop as a biproduct of trauma to the body.
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A family of Florida-based hair transplant doctors want to extract your blood and inject it back into your scalp. More specifically, your Platelet Rich Plasma.
Video from MSNBC showing Follica’s co-founder, George Cotsarelis, predicting a market release “within a few years” under “perfect” circumstances. It is also confirmed that human trials should begin “within the next year or two”.
Our pre-millennial pipedreams were always clear; “The Year 2000″ was to be splashed above our lives like a marquee of technological miracles: jetpacks, robot maids, holograms, hoverboards, cure for cancer, cure for ugly, no more woes.
Acell, a Jessup, Maryland-based company, has begun providing hair transplant doctors with its skin-regenerating powder. This may possibly provide an unlimited source of donor hair.
Dr. Robert Jones now has access to Acell’s Extracellular Matrix (ECM) products for wound healing. Anyone interested in signing up as a test patient, please email hairsite@aol.com immediately for details.
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He only looks sad still; he died while waiting for hair
Intercytex, the UK-based biotechnology company and hair multiplication darlings of the moment, have released the final results from their Phase II trials for their flagship hair product, ICX-TRC.
The last results were in September, leaving us with extremely promising results and the impression that they were [...]
A patent dug up from 2001 outlines a method to reduce or reverse hair loss by injecting the scalp with Botox.
Two Toronto, Canada-based doctors named Marvin Schwartz and Brian Freund claim the following:
Injection of (Botox) improves the tissue environment surrounding the hair follicles by reducing scalp tension and, by doing so, improves bloodflow through [...]
The Business Shrink has a funny post on full scalp transplants:
The most shocking method being discussed by none other than Maria Siemionow and her team, is a full human scalp transplant. The first swing at this idea is not for the cosmetically challenged individuals that need a better head of hair to go with their [...]