Notice Geoff's tone of voice when a reporter mentions "when will it be ready?". He feels angst when having to answer this question from reporter after reporter. If he's not excited to share this news with a happy and not avoidant tone of voice, then it is clear that it's a far way's off (if ever). The two years or more until we really have it solidified line, I'm just not buying it. He just wants to keep his job and keep the money flowing in to stay afloat. He hasn't made a convincing case where they're at and what recent progress has been made. Again, not a word about the pig experiments. They need to put some evidence forward of what progress they've made with something that we can see otherwise I may as well go to a synagogue and hear a rabbi tell me that Messiah (Moschiach) is coming any day now or go to church and hear "Jesus is coming back soon". How long have the Jews, Christians and everyone pretty much been hearing that? Well same goes for this. We're promised things, and I doubt they will ever be realized or fulfilled. Geoff needs to make a better argument, tell us more and the details of things we want to hear about. He needs to get to this forum and address this hair loss community as it is among the largest on the Internet. We should be taken seriously. There is a lot of us who come here regularly. We should not be ignored by them! I read from many of readers here that this isn't something he should or needs to do. That is the case if you lack the self-esteem or feel you are not important. You create the reality based on your expectations.
you are a lunatic
I think you're a bad news bearer, but so am I.
I sent an email I think last year and this year at sometime with no reply so don't take it personal. I assume they have been mute because things aren't turning out. Sure, it very well could be a scenario where they are not saying anything because they are trying to keep it hush, their busy, or perhaps some other reason that discounts the hair loss industries almost flawless track record of dissappointments however, that doesnt seem likely.
Thank you for following up on my suggestion. I'm glad to know then it's not me. I take a sincere interest in Stemson Therapeutics and am curious to know what developments have been made from them. Why that should put me in bad standing with them makes no sense. I even found Geoff Hamilton's personal phone number and left him two messages on his answering tape. No return. I'm not going to try again as I don't want to harass him, but this avoidance doesn't look good. I actually have more confidence in Fukuda Labs now. I sent them an email as well encouraging them to begin studies to develop human hair cloning. I think it's good we contact these groups. The reason is if government agencies want to slow them down for safety concerns, they could show proof of the emails they receive, and it may encourage regulators to reconsider their restrictions. Hair loss sufferers need a lobby so that we can get research and funding more and quicker. This might be a more productive use of our time here than just waiting for things to fall into our laps. We need to take a proactive approach to this. We need to take money and political steps to improve our chances of finding a cure more quickly. If anyone is interested in working to form a lobby, drop a comment, we can exchange information and hopefully form our own group to work together.
Hi Raccooner, good for your iniciative, can we see your questions to Geoff Hamilton?
This is not only for bioengineerd hair. These kind of research will open doors to many other fields in tissuse regeneration. Hair follicle is very complex organ. It is not easy task. Especially working with iPSCs. iPSCs are new to the science, so FDA and scientists are skeptical working with them for safety reasons. I understand why Stemson are working slowly and going step by step. Nobody wants to put you cancer on your hair and end up in jail. Or spend 30-50 million dollars on clinical trials and can’t control how iPSCs behave in the body. It is a problem, because iPSCs after one passage can grow and behave like neural cells instead like dermal papilla cells or whatever.
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All of this is very fascinating, even going beyond the possibility of recreating a hair. Right now I see two ways for the future and I believe both must coexist, the first is regeneration in the body and the second when self-regeneration is not possible, precisely recreating an organ such as the heart in the laboratory, so as to give back to the patient a perfect brand new twenty year old guy heart, without side effects such as those of an organ transplant, thus restoring a normal life to the patient, or being able to recreate an eyeball in the laboratory for a patient who has lost his sight.
Hair cloning would make the surgeon's job way easier. No longer needing to extract the donor supply would be a relief to them and the patient especially and this way surgeons could service more people and make more money. A win for everyone all around. The issue I have is can the hair implants be grafted closely enough together with the limited blood supply going to the area? It may require still two or three rounds of surgery over month's time to get the desired result still. Any thoughts on this?
As far as surgical hair transplantation is concerned, I think the limitation of blood flow and trauma, even if minimal, will always apply, so more sessions will have to be done if you want densities similar or equal to the natural one. I thought that with the use of robots instead of human hands a lot could have been solved, but apparently as far as hair transplantation is concerned, robots give a lower result than the surgeon for now. I too think it's better to get your hair back now rather than at an older age when the priorities are different, in fact we often speak "only" of an aesthetic problem, as if good sociability and high self-esteem count for nothing for human beings. My superior in the military always said that human beings only need three things: food, sleep, poop. I would also add another two which are leisure and sociality which also includes sexuality, without these a normal person lives badly and ends up going crazy. Not to mention that being forced to not be able to open up to the fullest, not to have the look you want is a limitation to the individual's self-determination and makes the person feel old before their time. Not to mention when this pathology arises at a young age such as adolescence, the boy will end up feeling finished and out of place, and let's be honest, it's not that his other peers are kind and mature with him, he will always end up being the one targeted for some joke, he will always have to be mature and not take it out on something that ultimately ruined his life and denied him a healthy relationship with the opposite sex. I find it really hateful and petty to call it only an aesthetic problem when a person's appearance is important (let's not say otherwise) and that this affects a person's character and future relationships.