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May 19th, 2007

Activate Your Macrophages for Hair Regrowth

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 […]

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May 22nd, 2006

Hair Loss Buddy: Regrowing Hair

Hair Loss Buddy has been trying Beta Sitosterol to regrow hair, and he’s chronicling his results.
Nearly two weeks into my experiment with beta sitosterol, as I expected no hair growth to report yet. It will take a few months before I see any new hair developing. However, I can’t be sure but it seems the […]

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April 28th, 2006

Stem Cell Treatment for Hair Regrowth

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 […]

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April 6th, 2006

The Hair Chair

Here’s a new one on me. According to this story there’s a new way to re-grow hair. All you have to do is sit down… in an ELECTRIC CHAIR!
OK, I’ve got your attention. Here’s the copy from WNEP in Pennsylvania.
Combating baldness is practically an industry unto itself. The littany of products and services aimed at […]

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