Baldness cure
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Growing human hairs from donor hair follicles
A team of scientists from Columbia University Medical Center in the US and Durham University in the UK have conducted a successfull experiment which could cure baldness without the pain of a hair transplantation: growing human hairs from dermal papilla cells taken from the inside of donor hair follicles. This technique generates new human hair growth!
The study was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) and describe how the tests consisted in growing hairs on human skin grafted onto the animals. Hair transplant treatments currently is a procedure in which hair is moved from one part of the scalp (donor area) to areas where the hair is thinning. This means redistributing one's existing hair follicles by surgery, in a specialised clinic, with all the unpleasenteries of such a process. The new revolutionary finding would actually increase the number of hair cells able to produce hair on the scalp! The advantages are obvious: it would take some hair cells, grow them in a lab culture, then transplant the multiplied cells back into the patient's scalp.
There is a lot of work still to be done before it can be tested in humans, but the team is optimistic that clinical trials will be able to start in the near future.
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Transplant procedures can be somewhat painful mainly due to local anesthesia using injections into the scalp. But new procedures do not involve needles
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Hair transplantation can be performed at any age, technicaly, but probably in many cases doctors recommend patients to wait up to an age close to 30 years.
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Depending on the method used for harvesting grafts, recovery time can vary from a few days (FUE method) to 1-2 weeks (FUT or STRIP method)
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Very important rules for a healty transition after hair transplant surgery.
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What technique? FUE or STRIP? Advantages and disadvantages of each.
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