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Searching through my back catalog of half-baked, not-yet published posts, I came across this one… which is strangely similar to the news about hair regeneration in mice that came out this week. According to the article abstract from in the Journal of Cell Biology researchers led by Nao Osaka observed a similar phenomena in mice […]
OK, by now we all know the four causes of hair loss.
Design
Disease
Disaster
Desire
It turns out I fall into the Disaster category and not the Design category as I had always thought. Apparently I had suppressed the memories of that fateful day quite well. It wasn’t until my wife unearthed a photo - surely by mistake - […]
OK, so that might not seem like big news. But it has the potential to be really big… and not just in the realm of hair growth. See it’s been thought that hair loss was permanent, meaning that if skin lost it’s hair follicle - and thus the ability to grow a hair - then […]
It’s a bumper month for companies doing research in the hair restoration arena. First Intercytex, then IGI, now Neosil.
Hercules Technology Growth Capital, Inc. has announced $10 million dollars in debt funding to Neosil.
“Hercules was particularly impressed with Neosil’s product pipeline and scope of therapeutics in development for an early stage pharmaceutical company,” said Kathy Conte, […]
So, my daughter, eldest of my eldest, was learning about acrostic poems today in school… and I was beset by a lyrical muse. Here is an original composition blending the acrostic with one of my personal favorites, the haiku.
Daddy has no hair.
Above his ears is nothing.
Dad is a Bald Man.
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Tags: acrostic, alopecia, bald, baldness, haiku, […]
I’m a little late with this one, due to a hectic travel weekend, but I’d like to wish all you mom’s out there a Happy Mother’s Day. And next time your bald kid gives you stick, tell ‘em to stuff it! It ain’t your fault!
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More real medical news…
From the press release:
IGI, INC. announced that it has received, a Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) grant from the National Cancer Institute to evaluate the safety and therapeutic potential of parathyroid hormone PTH (7-34) analog to treat alopecia induced by chemotherapy in breast cancer patients.
In previous animal testing, IGI “successfully formulated PTH […]
From the press release:
BioLife Solutions Inc. , a leading developer and marketer of proprietary hypothermic storage and cryopreservation media products for cells and tissues, today announced a supply and licensing agreement with Intercytex Group plc, a Cambridge, UK, and Boston-based cell therapy company.
The agreement lasts 10 years and covers permits Intercytex access to the HypoThermosol […]
No theme this time around; just some that caught my eye.
Steroids for eczema.
Like father, like son?
Lowering your hairline
Why NOT the sides and back?
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That’s the argument put forth by Drs. Bernstein and Rassman of Bernstein Medical in the latest issue of the journal Hair Transplant Forum. The journal is published by The International Society of Hair Restoration Surgery (ISHRS), and the lead article this time around is “Densitometry and Video-microscopy.”
In the article the doctors argue that a close, […]
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