Bald News - Implanting Cloned Hair

Curing baldness has been a pursuit of man's for decades. Hair is an important part of one's appearance to many and those individuals that feel this way will go to great lengths to replace their lost hair. One solution for restoring lost hair involved a surgical solution which removes hair from the rear of the head of the bald person and transplants it on the top. This method is painful and quite barbaric, but what could a person do? When it is gone (you hair), it is gone and there are limited solutions available to restore it.

Well that's how it was, until Bessam Farjo, a hair loss specialist who works for Intercyted, a British based company, made a new discovery. Farjo has developed a process that allows him to clone human hair. He recently concluded a 13 patient, 48 week clinical trial in which 40 per cent of the implanted clone hair cells, combined with blood flow stimulating scalp massage, produced new hair on the patients.

Male pattern baldness occurs when some of the hair producing dermal papilla cells begins growing thinner and thinner, less visible hair. Current hair transplanting procedures involves removing approximately 6,000 healthy hair cells from the patient's head and moving them to the bald section. Farjo's hair cloning procedure removes only 100 healthy hair cells.

These healthy hairs he clones in his lab until he has created millions of likely specimens. The cloned hair is then injected into the bald scalp regions of the patient's head. When the cloned hair takes and sprouts a fresh hair, it may also encourage additional hair growth in neighboring scalp tissue. That was the result 40% of the patient's experienced during his recent clinical trial.

The loss of hair and gradual permanent baldness is generally the result of the obstruction of blood flow and circulation in the affected individual's scalp. Stimulating increased blood flow to the hair roots and instituting a nutritional approach which feeds the hair from within can improve hair growth and prevent baldness. Hair is a living part of the body just as skin, teeth, and nails are. Fed by the blood stream, its health depends a great deal on the quality of the blood it feeds on.

Farjo's hair cloning process takes these facts into consideration when administering his procedure. The patient's nutrition is constantly monitored and regular blood stimulating scalp massages are part of the treatment. This hair cloning procedure is not just a matter of vanity; it could also provide insight into how to clone other body tissues for therapeutic uses in the future. Farjo's next hair cloning technique is to attempt to grow complete hair follicles in his lab which would make the transformation from Mr. Clean into Favio even less difficult and more certain.

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