Goodbye To Baldness .. New Technology Gives You Hope A Team Of Japanese Researchers Has Succeeded In

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Goodbye to baldness .. New technology gives you hope
A team of Japanese researchers has succeeded in developing new technology that can produce new hair rejuvenation tissues, which may play an important role in the development of treatments for future hair loss.
The regenerative medicine branch of hair involves the renewal of hair follicles by means of small devices that promote hair growth and maintain it as a new treatment to combat the problem of baldness.
However, it is difficult to set up germs for hair follicles – the reproductive source of hair follicle – widely, according to researchers at the University of Tokyo University School of Medicine. The technique of the preparation of germs of hair follicles depends on the implantation of the bulbs by transplanting a germ that promotes the efficiency of hair follicles
As a result, the team successfully prepared up to 5,000 germs for hair follicles simultaneously. They reported new hair growth after transplantation of these bacteria into a number of experimental mice.
Dr Junji Fukuda, a professor of dermatology at Yokohama National University in Japan, said the bacteria are an important key to the production of large amounts of natural substances that stimulate the return of hair follicles back to activity and hair growth
 

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I understand the pessimism with the mice, and the sensationalist McDonald's nonsense, but I've seen articles pertaining to this particular type of study and the fact that it works at all is actually very exciting. This definitely seems like one step closer, but unfortunately even with unlimited funding to push clinical trials it still probably falls under the perennial "5 years away".
 

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highly recommend you read the article in sciencedaily. it seems fukuda et al. were able to accomplish tsujis hurdle, that is, large scale production of viable follicle germs. i dont see why this method cant be replicated with human hfgs, which fukuda alluded to has been accomplished already:

"This simple method is very robust and promising. We hope that this technique will improve human hair regenerative therapy to treat hair loss such as androgenic alopecia," adds Fukuda. "In fact, we have preliminary data that suggests human HFG formation using human keratinocytes and dermal papilla cells."

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/02/180201142853.htm
 

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This is actually amazing news! It's literally the step before trying it out in humans?

From the original study:

"Over a 3-day culture period, cells initially formed a randomly distributed single cell aggregate and then spatially separated from each other, exhibiting typical HFG morphological features. These self-sorted hair follicle germs (ssHFGs) were shown to be capable of efficient hair-follicle and shaft generation upon intracutaneous transplantation into the backs of nude mice."

Tsui's team will be very aware of this, I wonder if they will incorporate this into their method.
 

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Lets hope there is something in this and its not too far away.

It would no doubt be very expensive if it ever did reach the public but it might mean hair transplant are more affordable if they are no longer the no 1 treatment of hair loss.
 

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Lets hope there is something in this and its not too far away.

It would no doubt be very expensive if it ever did reach the public but it might mean hair transplant are more affordable if they are no longer the no 1 treatment of hair loss.

Well, the tsuji team has already come out and said that prices would be comparable to a hair transplant. I guess its exciting to think that theres a potential in as little as 3 years time to be able to have a big hair transplant and use cloning as an adjunct for as much additional density as you wanted i.e. how much money youre willing to spend.

Exciting times!
 

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Well, the tsuji team has already come out and said that prices would be comparable to a hair transplant. I guess its exciting to think that theres a potential in as little as 3 years time to be able to have a big hair transplant and use cloning as an adjunct for as much additional density as you wanted i.e. how much money youre willing to spend.

Exciting times!
do you have any link for that?
 

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Source for this outrageous claim

do you have any link for that?

My apologies, i realise after looking back, the 'accessible' price is not immediately planned, they mention 'eventually'. My bad!


Keiko:
Thank you. Question 16: There has been some concern that a procedure like this would not be affordable to the majority of the consumer public. An average hair transplant costs between $8,000 and $12,000 USD (827k – 1.2m Yen). Does your company anticipate this procedure costing less than, similar to, or more than a typical hair transplant procedure?

Mr. Sugimura: This may not be the answer you find interesting, but to be honest with you, we are currently still in research for some parts, so it is difficult for us to determine. Therefore, at this point we are not ready to discuss about the pricing range. Generally speaking, the price is usually expensive during initial commercial stage, and frankly speaking, we have to admit the same for our case as well. However, after that, as the number of patients increases, we believe that we will be able to better control the price, and we definitely should be able to do so. Therefore, this is our long-term plan, but we plan to eventually lower the price to the level at which anybody can benefit from this therapy.
 

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into a number of experimental mice...
into a number of experimental mice...
into a number of experimental mice...

Lol

But seriously, I think that for the most part, I'm done caring about new studies at all.

The research of companies like Riken, Follica (and related studies) or Shiseido is enough that I'm positive I'll be able to get a functional cure out of at least one of them and a sizeable amount of "new" research is essentially just backing up these companies' tech.

Like, yeah...there is some new stuff that is interesting like that CXXC5 thing outta Korea...but it's all so far away from even beginning a trial that I just can't bring myself to care about it.
 

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Lol

But seriously, I think that for the most part, I'm done caring about new studies at all.

The research of companies like Riken, Follica (and related studies) or Shiseido is enough that I'm positive I'll be able to get a functional cure out of at least one of them and a sizeable amount of "new" research is essentially just backing up these companies' tech.

Like, yeah...there is some new stuff that is interesting like that CXXC5 thing outta Korea...but it's all so far away from even beginning a trial that I just can't bring myself to care about it.
Just out of curiosity, on which Norwood scale are you now ?
 

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Lol

But seriously, I think that for the most part, I'm done caring about new studies at all.

The research of companies like Riken, Follica (and related studies) or Shiseido is enough that I'm positive I'll be able to get a functional cure out of at least one of them and a sizeable amount of "new" research is essentially just backing up these companies' tech.

Like, yeah...there is some new stuff that is interesting like that CXXC5 thing outta Korea...but it's all so far away from even beginning a trial that I just can't bring myself to care about it.

Where do you get your optimism from dude? Are you optimistic generally?
 

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Where do you get your optimism from dude? Are you optimistic generally?
He's kind of right to be optimistic about those studies, especially when you read what they've been able to do til now and what they're claiming they can do in the future. One day it's going to be a reality, but that day is still far away, sure we'll maybe get shiseido this year but don't expect 1st gen gene hairloss treatments to be closely effective to what our idea of a cure is.
 
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