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Follicle Thought has received a brief update to share regarding the progress of the highly anticipated company Shiseido. On July 4th I sent a tweet to Replicel CEO Lee Buckler asking him when he thought we would hear an announcement from Shiseido pertaining to their trial of RCH-01. His response is shown below. As you…
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I just received an email from Histogen that they have begun recruitment for their clinical trial of HSC660 in female pattern baldness. Full press release below. I know so many women are going to be happy reading this. 🙂 Histogen Press Release Histogen Kicks Off Clinical Trial for Female Hair Loss SAN DIEGO, July 2,…
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I’m pleased to share with you all a startup which is a little bit “outside the box” from the usual companies you’d see on Follicle Thought. Today’s topic of interest, Birch BioMed, is based in Vancouver, Canada and was birthed on the campus of the University of British Columbia. The company’s prize clinical candidate is…
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SCM Lifescience is a biotechnology company based in South Korea with a focus on adult stem cell therapeutics. The company had caught my eye several months ago when I read about its plans to develop a stem-cell derived product for hair growth. Since then, SCM seems to be making progress on that path. SCM Lifescience…
Read MoreThe New Yorker Magazine published an article this morning on the truly “age old quest” of curing hair loss. The article, written by Amos Barshad, is not your typical mainstream media wrap on baldness and its treatment horizon. Amos spoke to a large pool of the hair growth industry companies and household names. Featured in…
Read MoreToday, Follicum announced their phase 2a trial of FOL-005 for the scalp is fully recruited. The trial consists of injections of Follicum’s modified peptide, FOL-005, over a three month period. This trial design is supportive for a data readout by year’s end, as enrollment has been completed while still in June. CEO of Follicum, Jan…
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Today, I am pleased to be sharing news of a stem-cell derived hair growth cosmetic product which could be available to consumers by the end of this year. While researching in the Follicle Thought lab recently 😉 I discovered the company Medipost, which is based in South Korea. Medipost is a biotechnology company that is…
Read MoreEarlier this year in March, a documentary titled “Too Young To Go Bald” was featured on the BBC network. The video was available for streaming online, yet only for residents of the UK. I recently found the full video available on Vimeo and wanted to share it with you all. This documentary displays the lives…
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Earlier this month, research coming out of the NIH and the University of Alabama made headlines for uncovering a piece of the biological puzzle which is the process of hair graying. The team behind the study determined that the immune system is highly involved in the proces of achromotrichia (hair graying) and that the transcription…
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Researchers from UCLA lead by Jing Huang PhD have shown in a recent study that small molecules which activate autophagy cause hair to enter the growth phase. Autophagy is a metabolic process that cells use to clear out or recycle parts of themselves. This study observed the hair growth effects of several types of small…
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