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Stem Cell Treatment for Hair Regrowth

by Bald Man on April 28th, 2006

It’s a hair replacement kind of week here at Baldiness. The Independent serves up a story about using stem-cell technology to treat baldness. From the article:

Hair is grown by the dermal papilla cells in skin. These can be removed and grown in a laboratory dish. Normally,these lab cells lose their ability to grow hairs, but add keratinocyte stem cells to the dermal papilla cells and the new cells are able to grow hairs when injected back into a bald head. Because no drugs are involved, and the human cells are unmodified, there are no side effects. New growth should become evident after three months. It should work on people too bald for a hair transplant and on women, whose hair thins out rather than being lost in a receding hairline.

Now, I tend to poo-poo hair replacement therapies, but something about this intrigues me. It doesn’t have the feeling of snake oil, like so many “treatments” do. I’ll be interested to see how this develops. Intercytex is the company behind the research.

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