New Research From Dr. Angela Christiano's Team

[GotHair?]

More details here: https://m.medicalxpress.com/news/2019-06-uncover-approaches-combat-hair-loss.html
It seems that they figured out to grow human hair in microenviroments. Basically long, thin plastic molds.
Now the bad news. They still need optimizing. And then afterwards, well you guessed it, they would need to go through clinical trials...
The other research seems it has found some immune component that inhibits hair growth. That also seems a decade away...

 

[Cymro27]

More details here: https://m.medicalxpress.com/news/2019-06-uncover-approaches-combat-hair-loss.html
It seems that they figured out to grow human hair in microenviroments. Basically long, thin plastic molds.
Now the bad news. They still need optimizing. And then afterwards, well you guessed it, they would need to go through clinical trials...
The other research seems it has found some immune component that inhibits hair growth. That also seems a decade away...

Another organisation growing hairs in a jar.. it's good that a few companies/ institutions are going this route. They'll only push each other to improve the processes.

 

[JimmyB]

Great, maybe she'll solve it within 50 years

 

[Mandar kumthekar]

Hair farming

I will be bald and then cure will appear for my grandsons

 

[max310]

I’m not happy for my grandsons. I hate them.

 

[Jakejr]

This article references JAK-inhibitors to reawaken sleeping hair follicles. I believe there are a few chemical compounds that can be purchased—
XELJANZ/XELJANZ XR (tofacitinib
there are some herbal JAK inhibitors.
Danshen & horny goat weed— Chinese medical herbs.
If one looks under very strong light like sunlight you will see very tiny hairs in balding areas, the so-called sleeping hair follicles.
So another line of inquiry.

 

[NewUser]

After discovering years ago that JAK inhibitors had the capability of activating the growth or “anagen” phase of a hair follicle, Christiano and researches delved further into the JAK-STAT pathway to find out exactly how it could manipulate the hair follicle growth cycle. The outcome of that research was the discovery of a new type of immune cell called a trichophage. These trichophages produce a substance called Oncostatin M which keeps hair follicles in a resting phase. If the production of Oncostatin M is blocked, the hair follicle begins to grow again. Christiano and her team are undoubtedly looking for new small molecule drugs and antibodies which could block the production of Oncostatin M in hair follicles.

Christiano said before the ultimate cure or treatment will eventually come in the form of a topical cream or ointment. No complicated or expensive lab procedures or transplantation just a cost effective tube of ointment. She came through in a major way for the NAAF which helped fund her research for AA. I think if Christiano, a geneticist, can produce a treatment for one vexingly hard to solve hairloss disorder, she will probably solve male and female pattern baldness, too.