I created a thread to post this, but it was apparently deleted so I'm going to post it here (why it was deleted?)
--> I've been following "Hair Cloning" since 2000. Nothing objectively changed for the past 20 years.
As far as HC (or HM) goes, we have exactly the same thing we had 20 years ago: objectively nothing.
Now before you say now we have Tsuji/Organ and Stemson with promising stuff ("promise" being the key term here), let me tell you in the last 2 decades we had:
Jahoda
Aderans
Gho
Intercitex
Lauster
And more recently Tsuji/Organ
And all of them followed more or less what I call the Doom path.
This cursed path consists basically of 5 phases.
1. The beginning:
Out of nowhere, this previously relatively unknown person/company disclose a supposedly serious breakthrough finding in hairloss research that could lead to the cure in about 5 years.
2. The momentum (usually lasts two years)
After the "breakthrough", they star to periodically publish studies and news showing that research is progressing very well.
3. The climax
As things gets exciting (apparently), they proudly release the year they plan to start clinical trials (usually in 2 years)
4. The weirdness
As the date that clinical trials are supposed to start gets closer, communication gets vague and we start to hear less and less from the company/researcher for apparent no reason (but we know why).
5. The Darkness
Company/researcher vanishes. Nothing objective, like a proof of concept in humans, was ever shown.
Most of the people/companies I listed followed that pattern almost exactly the same (except for Gho, he did release HM, except it was really a ordinary hair transplant that didn't yielded hair multiplication at the donor at all).
The last researcher/company that is completing the path to darkness is Tsuji/Organ. In the year they were supposed to start clinical trials, we get Tsuji resignation from his position as research director instead. Explanations? ZERO. Clinical Trials? Of course not.
Stemson is the next one in line to repeat the pattern. They are currently in phase 2. Guess what we will happen next, according to history.
Sorry folks, we are stuck in 2000.