waynakyo
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So some new angry kids on the block lost their mind seeing my post on here and started cursing because it does not fit their high standards of scientific contribution here. The General discussion section is full of "am I going bald?" posts, while here it is 50% dermarolling or RU, tough choice.
I would like to delete the post and informed the forum, but in the meantime I leave you with a quote for the New Yorker that interviewed Christiano last year. It is in italics below. That summarizes to some extent my point about the difficulties laying ahead. Many treatments in pipeline can be characterized as either attempts to stimulate embryonic conditions and growth factors (histogen, IPSCs,..) or recreating hair follicles mostly using DSCs (Replicel, Christiano, ..). A lot in the pipeline, but they hinge on a similar mechanism working. We have our eggs in 2-3 baskets.
As for my experimentation with drugs (since this will likely be my last post for a while): RU is the thing that stopped me losing hair once and for all, period. Once I went on a high dose, i never shed again. But I never grew hair either.
cheers
From the New Yorker last year:
Cloning has seen many false starts and wrong turns, Christiano told me. Now her team is building “an artificial skin with a dermis and an epidermis, with molds made to mimic the dimensions of hair density,” she explained. “When the artificial skin matures we pull out the pre-formed hairs and insert them into the skin.” Bernstein is convinced that, in the next ten years, cloned hair will happen. “And then the supply and demand problem is solved,” Bernstein said. “Without Bernanke!”
Christiano is more of a skeptic. Lab results are nice, she said, but “you can grow mouse or rat hair sixteen ways till Sunday. They grow beautifully!” She laughed. “Humans, not so much.” She points out that there’s so much we still don’t understand. For one: Why does the hair on the back of men’s heads stick around, even when all the rest drops? She also counsels caution when playing God with hair loss. Some companies are seeking hair-restoration cures by attempting to modify developmental-cell pathways. Those pathways, Christiano says, “are potent, and so it’s tempting, but you have to make sure it’s well enough controlled that you don’t initiate a cancer signal.”
I would like to delete the post and informed the forum, but in the meantime I leave you with a quote for the New Yorker that interviewed Christiano last year. It is in italics below. That summarizes to some extent my point about the difficulties laying ahead. Many treatments in pipeline can be characterized as either attempts to stimulate embryonic conditions and growth factors (histogen, IPSCs,..) or recreating hair follicles mostly using DSCs (Replicel, Christiano, ..). A lot in the pipeline, but they hinge on a similar mechanism working. We have our eggs in 2-3 baskets.
As for my experimentation with drugs (since this will likely be my last post for a while): RU is the thing that stopped me losing hair once and for all, period. Once I went on a high dose, i never shed again. But I never grew hair either.
cheers
From the New Yorker last year:
Cloning has seen many false starts and wrong turns, Christiano told me. Now her team is building “an artificial skin with a dermis and an epidermis, with molds made to mimic the dimensions of hair density,” she explained. “When the artificial skin matures we pull out the pre-formed hairs and insert them into the skin.” Bernstein is convinced that, in the next ten years, cloned hair will happen. “And then the supply and demand problem is solved,” Bernstein said. “Without Bernanke!”
Christiano is more of a skeptic. Lab results are nice, she said, but “you can grow mouse or rat hair sixteen ways till Sunday. They grow beautifully!” She laughed. “Humans, not so much.” She points out that there’s so much we still don’t understand. For one: Why does the hair on the back of men’s heads stick around, even when all the rest drops? She also counsels caution when playing God with hair loss. Some companies are seeking hair-restoration cures by attempting to modify developmental-cell pathways. Those pathways, Christiano says, “are potent, and so it’s tempting, but you have to make sure it’s well enough controlled that you don’t initiate a cancer signal.”
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we already have too much off-topic stuff in here which makes it hard to extract actually useful information.
