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Follicle Thought is proud to present this exclusive preclinical research data courtesy of Dr. Jan Alenfall of Follicum. Jan has provided me with a personal write-up on Follicum’s lead candidate drug, FOL-S-005, as well as two research data graphs. I have added the write-up to the original Follicum post. Below are two graphs demonstrating the…
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Originally, I coupled this write-up in the previous Skin and Hair Regeneration for Transplant Donor Area post, but I decided to expand upon it and give it its own post. The main idea of the latest research article by Luis Garza et al is a protein called toll-like recepter 3 (TLR3) was found to be a major…
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BiologicsMD, a biotechnology start-up out of Fayetville, Arkansas, has recently been granted a patent for a protein named “BMD-2341” that has been said to promote hair growth or prevent hair loss. The patent is titled ““Fusion Proteins of Collagen Binding-Domain and Parathyroid Hormone.” This news comes in the latest press release from BiologicsMD. The research…
Read MoreIn memory of Devon Grimme who has passed away since the publishing of this interview. Follicle Thought is proud to present this exclusive interview with the two major figures of Follicept, Devon Grimme and Dr. Stephen Hsu. There’s a few goodies in here that I have not seen mentioned on the Follicept message board. Many…
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Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute just received a generous donation to the tune of $100 million. The donation has prompted them to change their name to Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute, incorporating the name of Conrad Prebys, their latest benefactor. The news comes in the same month that we learned Sanford-Burnham estimated it would…
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Hey All, I just wanted to let you know that I’ve added a new email subscription sign-up on the right sidebar of the page. You simply enter your email and you will receive a notification every time I post a new article to the site. Also, I’ve added a Twitter follow button on the side…
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(Published July 2015) I was wondering when Wake Forest was going to get in the hair game. The school has one of the most advanced regenerative medicine programs in the country. According to the Wake Forest website, they are currently gearing up for a clinical trial on a “topical investigational medication” for hair. At the…
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The research led by Alexey Terskikh at Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute has grown very popular on the internet over the past several months. The work was even featured in our Ultimate Guide to Hair Regeneration a few months ago. Terskikh’s technology is based on taking human pluripotent stem cells, programming them to differentiate into dermal…
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Update: Here is the write-up that Follicum CEO Dr. Jan Alenfall provided to Follicle Thought. Follicum – Click to Download Been to Sweden lately? I haven’t either. But, I might be more interested in booking a flight after Follicum’s clinical trial gets underway in early 2016. Follicum is a new biotechnology venture based in Sweden…
Read MoreChristophe Guillemat and the CFS Barcelona Hair Transplant Clinic have been developing a technique to transplant stem cells from donor hair to the recipient area to grow hair follicles. I have heard Guillemat say that the doctors of the CFS use the complete donor area when doing this procedure. The technique itself sounds very similar to…
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