What you can expect to see in the coming years with exciting new technologies of stem cells and hair cloning.

Stem Cells

Research on bald mice can grow hair after being implanted with a type of stem cell could lead to an eventual cure for baldness according to a group of scientists.

Many scientists have been researching whether hair follicles contain “blank slate” stem cells that can give most humans a full head of hair for life. Don’t count on this treatment any time soon. It’s still several years away.

Hair Cloning

The principle behind hair cloning is to produce new hair follicles from certain cells. At its simplest, a few healthy hair follicles can be excised from a biopsy. The follicles are then get dissected to isolate a small ball of cells at the base of each follicle called the dermal papilla.

For the average full grown scalp hair there are about 200-400 cells in each dermal papilla.

These few cells can be cultured in incubators to make several hundred thousand cells within 6 weeks or so. The cells are then implanted into the patients bald skin where the dermal papilla cells induce new hair follicles to develop.

The process is not fully understood, but we do know that dermal papilla cells send out chemical signals called cytokines that tell the skin to produce a new hair follicle. A new hair follicle is made from epithelial cells, but the “development and cycling” of the follicle is determined by dermal papilla cells.

You must have both dermal papilla cells and epithelial cells together to form a hair follicle. Just one or the other cannot form a follicle on their own.

Since there are so many factors involving the development of hair follicles in order to bring about new hair follicle formation the actual development is a long way off. You can read the article written by Dr. Kevin McElwee at HairlossTalk.

Maybe in our lifetime science will find a cure for hair loss. Hair loss is not a crippling disease. It’s a lifestyle. If you’re comfortable with the way you look then you’ve won. If on the other hand it’s affecting you emotionally that you need to use medication, then try different hair loss treatments and see what works for you.

Always consult your doctor about any treatments you’re interested in. And take the time to look for any side effects on the product you’re looking to purchase.

About the author

William Cortes is a freelance writer and owner of Endbalding.com which sells an anti-inflammatory hair loss teatment that stops inflammation DHT.

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