Posts by Follicle Thought
Histogen And Replicel Coming To A Theater Near You
Posted on December 3, 2015 Okay, they probably won’t be at a theater near you, more likely a dermatologist’s office, but still…they’re coming. Lee Buckler of Replicel and Gail Naughton of Histogen had some great updates to share with the world at the 2015 World Congress for Hair Research in Miami, Florida. The most important…
Read MoreWCHR 2015, Shiseido Trial: Weekly Thoughts 11/25/15
To all of my readers in the United States, a very Happy Thanksgiving to you! I’m thankful for all you who frequent this site and all of the wonderful hair regeneration news that has been coming forth over the past week. World Congress for Hair Research 2015 Undoubtedly, there was a lot of important and…
Read More9th World Congress for Hair Research
The 9th World Congress for Hair Research is set to kick off tomorrow, November 18, 2015. These conferences bring a lot of hope and excitement to the online hair seeker community. It is true that there is usually more information released around the time of the hair congress than the rest of the year, but,…
Read MoreBimatoprost Scalp Results, Breezula: Weekly Thoughts 11/10/15
Hello Everybody, It’s good to be back with you. I’ve got some pretty neat tidbits to share in this installment of Weekly Thoughts. Enjoy and share. Allergan Releases Bimatoprost Results We’ve all been patiently waiting to see the results from Allergan’s phase 2 bimatoprost trial for scalp hair growth. Last week on November 4,…
Read MoreJAK Inhibitors Show Great Potential as a Hair Loss Treatment
Angela Christiano is up to it again, and the online hair world is very thankful. It was just a little over a year ago when the internet was ablaze with the news that Dr. Angela Christiano and her colleagues were studying the pharmaceutical drug ruxolitinib in cases of alopecia areata. Like tofacitinib, ruxolitinib is a…
Read MoreMicroCures for Hair, Follicum Trials: Weekly Thoughts 10/17/15
Cheers Everybody, It’s nice to be back here with you. Man, I do wish that hair regeneration news came more frequently, but I am happy to finally have some pertinent information to report upon. Wound Healing Company Interested in Hair Regeneration MicroCures, a biotech startup that is developing a siRNA technology for wound healing, has…
Read MoreNew MicroRNA Research Announced “mIR-22”
Reddit Revelations Last Wednesday morning, Zhengquan Yu of the China Agricultural University and Dr. Maksim Plikus of the University of California Irvine entertained an AMA (ask me anything) crowd on the social news website Reddit about their work involving hair follicles. Yu has just authored a paper titled “Post-transcriptional Regulation of Keratinocyte Progenitor Cell Expansion,…
Read MoreClinica CFS Update, Stem Cell Research: Weekly Thoughts 9/22/15
Hello everybody, and salutations. Over the past week I’ve gathered up a few news items which are significant in their own right, both related to hair restoration surgeons. I hope this tides you all over until some major hair restoration news surfaces soon. Before I get into the news I want to take a moment…
Read MoreRendl Lab at Mount Sinai
Located within the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai University you can find one of the most advanced hair follicle research labs in the country. The lab bears the name of its principal investigator, Michael Rendl, MD. Michael hails from Austria where he received his medical degree at the University of Vienna. After completing…
Read MoreFollica News, PRP Study: Weekly Thoughts 9/5/15
I hope it’s been a good week, everybody. I’m still planning on releasing some exclusive posts soon, one being from a top researcher in the hair science world. Hopefully, sometime next week I will have an article ready to go. In the meantime, I have two noteworthy items to share in this weeks, Weekly Thoughts.…
Read More