Posts by Follicle Thought
Shiseido is Officially Cleared to Start RCH-01 Trial
Replicel’s hair growth therapy, RCH-01, has officially received approval by Japanese regulatory authorities to be used in a clinical trial that is now launching. We did hear some rumblings recently that Shiseido was putting the final touches on it’s clinical trial to take place at the Tokyo Medical University Hospital and Toho University Ohasi Medical…
Read MoreKyocera joins the Tsuji Party, New Futuristic Cap for Hair Growth: Weekly Thoughts 7/16/16
Hello everyone and welcome to a timely edition of Weekly Thoughts. The news involving Kyocera and Dr. Tsuji in this Weekly Thoughts is perhaps the best development I’ve heard of this year since the original buzz of the Brotzu lotion a few months back. This edition also features a new intriguing company that is developing…
Read MoreShiseido Trial Update, Topical Reverses Baldness after Decades: Weekly Thoughts 7/1/16
Hey everybody, welcome to another installment of Weekly Thoughts. This week we get an encouraging update about the logistics of Shiseido’s trial and more information about the RiverTown Therapeutics Inc. compound. Shiseido Closer to Trial News was finally released this week about Shiseido’s upcoming trial in Japan using Replicel’s RCH-01 technology. Shiseido acquired an exclusive…
Read MoreNew Brotzu Interview, Donor Regeneration Technology: Weekly Thoughts 6/24/16
Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Weekly Thoughts. We’re now past the halfway point of the year, and quite frankly, I think a lot of people expected there to be more news regarding pivotal clinical trails for some of our favorite hair growth technologies. Nonetheless, the good news continues to pour in and…
Read MoreAclaris Presentation, New Topical for Hair/Color Restore: Weekly Thoughts 6/9/16
Hello Everyone, Welcome to another edition of Weekly Thoughts. This edition features a presentation update on the JAK inhibitor therapies for hair growth and the announcement of a new startup/treatment for hair growth that is also claimed to restore hair pigment. Wowzas. Let’s take a look. Aclaris Therapeutics Jeffries Presentation Acalaris Therapeutics CEO Dr. Neal…
Read MoreBiologicsMD: 2016 Summary
Last summer I was happy to discover BiologicsMD, a new biotech startup coming out of Fayetteville, Arkansas. At that time, the company had just announced a new patent for the uses of bone growth, hair growth, and prevention of hair loss. You might imagine it was the latter two that caught my eye. It’s been…
Read MoreHair Loss Cure Via Gene Editing
A professor from Hebei University of Science and Technology, Chunyu Han, has developed a potentially groundbreaking genome editing technology. The technology is similar in nature to the CRISPR-Cas9 method but uses DNA-guided genome editing instead of RNA-guided genome editing. Han’s work was published in the May 2nd edition of the Nature Biotechnology Journal and has…
Read MoreBrotzu Update: Alopecia Areata Presentation
I wanted to give everyone a quick update on one of the hottest topics in the hair growth treatment world, the Brotzu lotion. Dr. Giovanni (John) Brotzu made a presentation last weekend at an Italian Alopecia Areata Association meeting. The presentation contains a few interesting new tidbits and is completely in Italian, but is somewhat…
Read MoreBiologicsMD Pipeline, Gray Hair Cure Research: Weekly Thoughts 4/30/16
Hello Everybody, It’s nice to be back here with you all for another installment of Weekly Thoughts. I’m personally excited about several items discussed in this edition. Let’s see what’s going on in the hair world this week. BiologicsMD New Site Layout With Pipeline BiologicsMD, a biotech startup which is affiliated with the University of…
Read MoreFollica Moves Forward, Thorn Medical: Weekly Thoughts 4/17/16
Hey there everybody, nice to see you all again. In this edition of Weekly Thoughts we find a new company with some ambiguous, yet noteworthy, claims about their hair growth technology, an update on Follica’s new pivot, and some background information on Samumed’s founder and CEO. Thorn Medical Makes Big Claim Last week, a press…
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