Did you get blood test from a lab? Including full panel Thyroid, vitamin D and DHT to understand if the "sudden" hair loss is Androgenetic Alopecia or something else? If you Doctor didn't check you for blood levels that matter to hair growth and loss, he is an incompetent as he sounds.
the money is (appropriately) with cancer research. The good news is that some of the cancer treatments can be exploited for hair loss (as long as we tolerate the sides.) However people dying of cancer and using Daro, Enza, Fina don't get checked for hair regrowth since the life extension expectation is 6 months. Hair cloning is definitely the way to go as it won't require us to know the details on Androgenetic Alopecia if we have hair that resist it. Hair cloning still presents dangers though. And cloning an organ is not exactly something I would call simple. So why are we still hoping this will happen in our life time?
cloning an organ is actually a lot simpler than you might think. you are not actually engineering all of the cells types yourself, you look at what happened during organogensis in the embryo and then you try to recreate this occurence, the cells are doibg the differentiation and migration signaling for you and you do not really have to understans what is going on
e. g we know hair follicles and other appendeges ariae from an interaction between epithel and mesynchime later being undifferentiated connecgive tissue in embrios. and thats exactly the approach of tsuji basifally. takeDP cells, populate them combine them with epithelial cells then you have an organoid ams then you implant it. it works because we have seen human hairs frowing on mice with transplanted human skin
now are there issues with it? surely but nothing thaz could not be ironed out durinf "our lifetime" are you kidding me?
if it were not for funding i am aost certain hair cloning would be in human clinical trials like now one way or the other.
10 years ago nobody knew of induced pluripotent szem cells, nobody knew about all this 20 years ago at all. haircloning will obviously happen, not because there is a need for it or an incentive but because there is a need and incentive for things that are harder than hair cloning like regenerating a spinal cord or a liver or cloning a human heart. the tech developed will easily accomplish applying this to hair. i mean there is a very discrete number of issues that stemson still needs to solve but they are quite far, inductivity was an issue, that is solved, cyclinf was an issue, that is solved, now mass production with iPC is still an issue as well as getting the exact right epiginetic type for the cells so they for example will not be androgen sensitive.
i would also disagree on it being the ojly hope, i think getting a better understanding of the molecular pathways imvolved is key for bogh tissue engineering and even modifications without it, i think RNA tech holds the biggest promise for androgemic alopecia actually.
people always say gene editing but do not know what it means.
inhibitory or microRNA that bind to mRNA and build a complex that is then degraded so protein like andeogen receptor or 5AR cannot be translated. Olix for example is working on this. youcan do this for any protein, you can also do post translational degradation like kintor is attempting
there are many promising new technologies other than hair cloning and hairbalways benefits from need out of other areas of medicine, it is never the driver of any technological advances and so will it be with hair cloning and tissue engineering in general. justthe need for functional skin regeneration with all its appendeges(glands, hair) for examppe for severe burn wounds is enough reason the tech will be developed
