I get what your saying but it's not really like medical advances are coming at light speed now. Compared to the total data we gathered then vs now you'd have thought wed be a type 1 civilization by now but yeah nope.
Are they not? Because I swear we just took gene editing (CRISPR) from a petri dish in 2013 to the first approved use in humans in 2018, with about a dozen more either in late stage trials or approved for special use and hundreds of other applications on the way. I also swear we just mapped a virus in 3 days and created a vaccine with cutting edge medical technology (mRNA) and distributed it to billions of people within 1 year, with HIV and cancer vaccines using the same technology already entering the clinic. RNA medicine is also being used in thousands of other applications already, including hairloss, most of which started their pre-clinical research only 2-3 years ago and are already approaching the clinic.
It's not an exaggeration at all. After years of "it's just around the corner" you get pessimistic.
I understand your point. One particular thing I think is when the clinical trials with humans start to occurs, with success, the speed to it go to market will increase alot. Since it will be a product to be used in a large scale and will profit very much.
For things like Parkinson's you can though, just not hairloss. Orphan drugs/diseases can go from pre-clinic to wide spread clinical trials and expanded access in a matter of 2-4 years. This means that after a successful phase 1/2 they can do an open label phase 3 where anyone with a verified diagnosis can likely get into a trial if they want to.
There honestly isn't much in the currently phase 2 or later pipeline that would convince me anything different is going to be available to keep your hair until something like this comes along anyways. Because of how broken the drug development systems are, cloning/multiplication has a much quicker path to being offered then a growth or maintenance drug.
The best we can do is use the treatments available now as we wait.
20 years away from hair cloning...I'm not going to lie, I laughed a little out-loud at you.
I think it is at least 20. This is assuming we make big strides the whole way.
Yea you're missing a few bolts
In 20 years when we don't have a cure for this curse you will remember my name.
No one will ever remember your name. What exactly are the obstacles that you think will take 20 years to overcome and why?
Funding, body rejecting treatment, failures, Getting fda approval. A lot can go wrong.
Finasteride works for maintenance for majority of men. I'm fine taking finasteride until cloning becomes available. Anything else like SMI/KY is just icing on the cake.
They use your own cells. I'm not sure through what mechanism you believe this may happen.
He doesn't know what the obstacles are, he just think's 20 years sound's reasonable because the 15~ before the last 5 were a dud.
I think funding can be a problem to consider, until the moment of success in human trials. But I don't think funding is a problem that really can stop or slow down the process alot, just in the beginning.