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Has there been any progress on cloning hair follicles? I don’t want to move the hair around. I simply want more hair.

by cactusplant7374 5mo ago

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Traubenfuchs 5mo ago
Yes, yes it's coming. In 10 years.
- Maken 5mo ago
  Just in time for fusion energy?
  - postsantum 5mo ago
    Yes, imagine endless energy and endless hair. It's like nuclear and hippy again, but stronger and ai-government-mandated
    - Tangurena2 5mo ago
      Oh, just like in the movie Gentlemen Broncos.
  - boringg 5mo ago
    No no fusion energy company is going public shortly so the technology must be closer than that :)
- XorNot 5mo ago
  There wasn't an effective weightloss drug until suddenly there was though.
embedding-shape 5mo ago
Could I donate mine to you? Been shaving my head for the last 20 years and I cannot wait for it to stop growing eventually... Seemingly it grows faster every year, as I need to continuously increase how often I trim it, I simply want less hair. Edit: I love that someone downvoted me for offering my hair follicles to a random stranger, downvotes truly happen randomly here :)
- ratg13 5mo ago
  You can't donate hair follicles .. it has to come from your own body
  - embedding-shape 5mo ago
    But all these people in Turkey walking around with their brand new hair follicles, aren't those from other people? Or from the same person, just elsewhere?
    - sonic45132 5mo ago
      They take your existing hair follicles from areas that aren't thinning and move them to the thinning or bald area.
      - embedding-shape 5mo ago
        So in theory if I want less head-hair and more chest-hair, I could in theory do this by moving the hair follicles? Interesting stuff.
        Tangurena2 5mo ago
        That would not be practical. Visible body hair (and head hair) is "terminal hair". Peach fuzz is "vellus hair". Androgens turn vellus hair into terminal hairs (and are also the driving force for male pattern baldness). There was a big stink on social media about the character Aloy in the game Horizon who had vellus hairs visible on her face - like every other human woman. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal_hair https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal_hair
giarc 5mo ago
I saw a headline about this the other day. I couldn't find it but did come across this article. https://www.zmescience.com/medicine/genetic/lab-grown-hair-follicle-regeneration-breakthrough/ https://www.zmescience.com/medicine/genetic/lab-grown-hair-f... No idea if ZME science is reputable at all.
- TylerE 5mo ago
  Totally unreputable. That is not a scientific journal. That is some guy (Who's degree is in geophysics) biog. The article was written by him.
  - giarc 5mo ago
    Here's the journal article from the authors mentioned in the article. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41762869/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41762869/
stavros 5mo ago
They tried, and it sort of worked, but they couldn't stop the resulting cancer from getting cancer.

Has there been any progress on cloning hair follicles? I don’t want to move the hair around. I simply want more hair.

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Traubenfuchs 5mo ago

Yes, yes it's coming. In 10 years.

Maken 5mo ago
Just in time for fusion energy?
- postsantum 5mo ago
  Yes, imagine endless energy and endless hair. It's like nuclear and hippy again, but stronger and ai-government-mandated
  - Tangurena2 5mo ago
    Oh, just like in the movie Gentlemen Broncos.
- boringg 5mo ago
  No no fusion energy company is going public shortly so the technology must be closer than that :)
XorNot 5mo ago
There wasn't an effective weightloss drug until suddenly there was though.

embedding-shape 5mo ago

Could I donate mine to you? Been shaving my head for the last 20 years and I cannot wait for it to stop growing eventually... Seemingly it grows faster every year, as I need to continuously increase how often I trim it, I simply want less hair. Edit: I love that someone downvoted me for offering my hair follicles to a random stranger, downvotes truly happen randomly here :)

ratg13 5mo ago
You can't donate hair follicles .. it has to come from your own body
- embedding-shape 5mo ago
  But all these people in Turkey walking around with their brand new hair follicles, aren't those from other people? Or from the same person, just elsewhere?
  - sonic45132 5mo ago
    They take your existing hair follicles from areas that aren't thinning and move them to the thinning or bald area.
    - embedding-shape 5mo ago
      So in theory if I want less head-hair and more chest-hair, I could in theory do this by moving the hair follicles? Interesting stuff.
      - Tangurena2 5mo ago
        That would not be practical. Visible body hair (and head hair) is "terminal hair". Peach fuzz is "vellus hair". Androgens turn vellus hair into terminal hairs (and are also the driving force for male pattern baldness). There was a big stink on social media about the character Aloy in the game Horizon who had vellus hairs visible on her face - like every other human woman. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal_hair https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal_hair

giarc 5mo ago

I saw a headline about this the other day. I couldn't find it but did come across this article. https://www.zmescience.com/medicine/genetic/lab-grown-hair-follicle-regeneration-breakthrough/ https://www.zmescience.com/medicine/genetic/lab-grown-hair-f... No idea if ZME science is reputable at all.

TylerE 5mo ago
Totally unreputable. That is not a scientific journal. That is some guy (Who's degree is in geophysics) biog. The article was written by him.
- giarc 5mo ago
  Here's the journal article from the authors mentioned in the article. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41762869/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41762869/

stavros 5mo ago

They tried, and it sort of worked, but they couldn't stop the resulting cancer from getting cancer.