Rapunzel Bioscience (colin Jahoda)

[Joxy]

Is Colin Jahoda back in the business?

http://www.rapunzelbioscience.com/

 

[JimmyB]

Terrible name but if they're cloning follicles in the US then this could be great. Time will tell.

 

[Georgie]

what a stupid company name

It’s because it’s owned by two female research scientists as a part of Vixen, which is a female hairloss startup also.

 

[That Guy]

Good stuff. Colin Jahoda was the first dude that I'm aware of who successfully grew human hair via cells on someone and as I recall, he had an ongoing study for like 10 years that recently ended (don't think the results are public).

So I'd say this is probably a good sign.

 

[wc5269]

This is Dr. Christiano's new company. She's the Columbia researcher who sold JAK inhibitors to Aclaris. She seems like a great person and is a true advocate for the hair loss community. I think the multiple hair cloning start ups popping up recently is pretty great news. It feels like they know the technology is coming and they're trying to corner the market.

Anyone know how the patents on something like hair cloning would even work? Can you really even patent the science of multiplying hair cells? I'm sure they can patent any proprietary technology they develop to get the follicles ready for the clinic, but if companies can use the same basic science we might see multiple companies offering the service, and that will help make this more affordable.

 

[Joxy]

My opinion is that science, technology and equipment behind stem cells advanced so much last 5 years and it is very realistic that they have something in their pockets that we don’t know yet.

 

[ZLulic]

Experiments are underway, and the evidence has been tantalizing. In theory, that little scallop of scalp floating in the dish at the Christiano Lab could be the source of a full head of hair. Working toward that future, Christiano and her team harvest the cultured follicles and implant them in artificial skin built in the lab. This skin nourishes the follicle, prodding from it a colorless, keratin-protein filament. The team then removes the productive follicle and grafts it onto the skin of a mouse. The result? Hair growing out of mice — human hair.

Christiano expects to move these trials from mice to people in two to three years, bringing nearer the day when people can grow, in a lab, their own viable hair follicles — a limitless supply of one’s own hair. https://magazine.columbia.edu/article/radical-solutions-baldness

Yet another mice bs. If the mice experiment was so good why are human trials in 3 years from now? Combine that with the FDA approval process and other stuff and you have maybe a launch in 7-8 years. Meanwhile Tsuji is doing the trials next year and doesn't have strict policies in his way.
I don't expect much from these slow a** people.

 

[BaldAndBalder]

Wigs have a long life ahead of em.