Hair Stem Cells
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,…
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,…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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.…
Updated October 2023 This post contains a list of the most viable and relevant hair regeneration treatments which are in development. They can be referred to as hair loss cures, baldness cures, hair growth treatments, hair loss treatments, or cures for androgenic alopecia. The treatments listed in this guide are ranked by a combination of…
Follica made a big splash in the hair regeneration world when it was first announced about 8 years ago. The approach was new and was based on manipulating the wound healing process of skin to induce hair follicle generation. Dr. George Cotsarelis quickly became the recognized face of the company. Since then, Follica has been…
One topic that I feel could use more attention in the hair regeneration world is scar repair for people who have underwent FUT hair transplants. I felt that it was a good time to bring up this subject alongside the publication from Dr. Luis Garza on TLR3 that came out this week. I will provide…
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