Shiseido Trial Update, Topical Reverses Baldness after Decades: Weekly Thoughts 7/1/16

By Follicle Thought | July 1, 2016 |

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…

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Aclaris Presentation, New Topical for Hair/Color Restore: Weekly Thoughts 6/9/16

By Follicle Thought | June 9, 2016 |

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…

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BiologicsMD: 2016 Summary

By Follicle Thought | June 2, 2016 |

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…

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Hair Loss Cure Via Gene Editing

By Follicle Thought | May 25, 2016 |

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…

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Brotzu Update: Alopecia Areata Presentation

By Follicle Thought | May 13, 2016 |

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…

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Follica Moves Forward, Thorn Medical: Weekly Thoughts 4/17/16

By Follicle Thought | April 17, 2016 |

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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How to React to the Announcement of a New Treatment?

By Follicle Thought | April 8, 2016 |

Originally published April 8, 2016 This is a discussion that I have planned to do for a while now. After reading about a new hair growth treatment that was announced yesterday, and knowing I would soon be sharing it with you all, I decided it was time to write this article first. When writing these…

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Vixen Pharmaceuticals Acquired By Aclaris Therapeutics

By Follicle Thought | March 28, 2016 |

Well you guys asked for it, right? An established pharmaceutical company has acquired the rights to Angela Christiano’s hair growth research involving JAK inhibitors. Aclaris Therapeutics has entered into an agreement with Vixen to acquire all of the stock of Vixen Pharmaceuticals. For those unaware, Vixen Pharma is the small startup company that Christiano founded…

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