New Scientific Breakthrough Might Help Cure Baldness
- 11 years ago
A team of scientists from the United States and the United Kingdom claim to have made a breakthrough that might help cure baldness and receding hairlines.
A team of scientists from the United States and the United Kingdom claim to have made a breakthrough that might help cure baldness and receding hairlines.
Current methods of baldness treatment include drugs that slow down hair loss, or transplants of hair from the back of a person’s head to the front to fill in bald spots.
Researchers from the University of Durham and Columbia University Medical Centre, have worked together on a study that grew human hair from tissue cell samples taken from seven people.
Those cell samples were grown in 3 dimensional spheroids before being transplanted to human skin that was grafted on laboratory mice.
Hair grew from the tissue samples after six weeks on five out of the seven attempts.
Professor Angela Christiano, from Columbia University said: “Current hair-loss medications tend to slow the loss of hair follicles or potentially stimulate the growth of existing hairs, but they do not create new hair follicles. Our method, in contrast, has the potential to actually grow new follicles using a patient's own cells.”
Other applications based on the research results might precede its use as a cure for baldness, like being used to make skin grafts for burn victims.
A team of scientists from the United States and the United Kingdom claim to have made a breakthrough that might help cure baldness and receding hairlines.
Current methods of baldness treatment include drugs that slow down hair loss, or transplants of hair from the back of a person’s head to the front to fill in bald spots.
Researchers from the University of Durham and Columbia University Medical Centre, have worked together on a study that grew human hair from tissue cell samples taken from seven people.
Those cell samples were grown in 3 dimensional spheroids before being transplanted to human skin that was grafted on laboratory mice.
Hair grew from the tissue samples after six weeks on five out of the seven attempts.
Professor Angela Christiano, from Columbia University said: “Current hair-loss medications tend to slow the loss of hair follicles or potentially stimulate the growth of existing hairs, but they do not create new hair follicles. Our method, in contrast, has the potential to actually grow new follicles using a patient's own cells.”
Other applications based on the research results might precede its use as a cure for baldness, like being used to make skin grafts for burn victims.