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Brief Items of Interest, July 2016
Hair loss news first: — I have covered Samumed and its SM04554 product a few times on this blog in the recent past. The drug is likely not going to be a miracle hair loss cure. I was therefore...
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So its Shiseido/Replicel versus Kyocera/RIKEN/ Tsuji at the Kobe Biomedical...
Update: And in other important news, Dr, Tsuji published a new paper several days ago; and Pokemon Go was finally launched in Japan, its spiritual homeland. Without any doubt, there has never been a...
View ArticleTwo Hair Transplant Related Polls — FUT or FUE; and BHT
It has been a while since the last poll. Today there are two of them, and both are related to hair transplants (which for the time being is usually the best option to treat extensive hair loss in both...
View ArticleFiji and Russia Take Interest in BioViva and Liz Parrish
I discussed Liz Parrish and BioViva in October of last year. While there has since been a great deal of skepticism surrounding Ms. Parrish’s self-experimentation as well as scientific credentials, I...
View ArticleLeucine-Rich Repeat-Containing G-Protein Coupled Receptor 4/5/6 (LGR4/5/6)...
Last year, someone sent me an interesting link to a study on LGR6 expressing epithelial stem cells (LGR6+ ESC) and their potential to regenerate human skin as well as hair in wounded skin. LGR6 stands...
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Hair Loss Concealers
Several weeks ago, I got a haircut and really disliked seeing an increasingly visible small bald spot in my frontal scalp region when my hair was short. Therefore, for the first time in my life I...
View ArticleBrief Items of Interest, August 2016
Hair loss news first: — Kyocera updated its article on the biggest news of this year in the hair loss world. They plan to conduct clinical research in Japanese fiscal year 2019 (i.e., between April...
View ArticleList of Surgeons who Offer Body Hair to Head Hair Transplants
In 2013, I wrote two posts (see here and here) on body hair transplants (BHT) where surgeons move body hair to the scalp in the event of donor hair shortage at the back of the scalp in the permanent...
View ArticleDr. John Cole’s Interesting Thoughts on PRP and his Proposed new Study on PRP
US (Atlanta, Georgia) based Dr. John Cole is undoubtedly one of the world’s most respected hair transplant surgeons. He has trained numerous other surgeons around the world over the years, and is...
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Free iRestore Laser Hair Growth System Prize Drawing
Please read the post till the end to follow the rules. I am not selling the below product, nor getting any fee to write this post. FYI — in case you win, you will have to verify that you are the same...
View ArticleiRestore Laser Device Winner Selection
Congratulations to “Shark” the winner of the contest. There were two people left after disqualifications of three, and in another random number generation selection, “Shark” beat out “Blaine1.”...
View ArticleHairClone (aka hairclone.me)
During the past few months, there have been a few new companies entering the hair regeneration sector, but none have impressed me and I have limited my coverage of all those companies to small sections...
View ArticleWharton’s Jelly Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells and Hair Follicle Generation
Update: I e-mailed Dr. Omar Aljitawi to ask him two questions (thanks to commentator “Jayjayaustria” for the first one) about this posts’s subject matter. Then I sent him a second e-mail for further...
View ArticleBrief Items of Interest, September 2016
Few days later than usual, but lots of new developments in the past month. Hair loss news first: — The most important news is courtesy of HLT, which several days ago interviewed people from the Dr....
View ArticleHairClone’s CEO Dr. Paul Kemp Provides us with some Feedback
FYI — Dr. Kemp has told me that he welcome’s blog reader questions so please post them in the comments to this post in a civil manner. If I end up taking up his slide presentation offer, I will ask...
View ArticleThe Arrival of the Multi-Billion Dollar Corporations and the Arrival of China
For the past two decades, researchers and companies involved in the search for a hair loss cure have always been hindered by lack of sufficient funding. Promising avenues of research (e.g., read the...
View ArticleMore Good News on JAK Inhibitors for AA; Mixed News on JAK Inhibitors for AGA
I was 50/50 about writing an entire post on JAK inhibitors, but in the end gave in due to the fact that I usually neglect the 1-2 percent of balding people who suffer from alopecia areata (AA) or the...
View ArticleChristophe Guillemat and Stem Cell Transfer (SCT) Hair Transplants
Over the past two years, perhaps the single most popular subject that I have been asked to provide my opinion on and have not is with regards to Dr. Christophe Guillemat (of the CFS Barcelona clinic in...
View ArticleFollica Updates its Website and it Looks Encouraging
As always, thanks to commentator “Mike” who regularly seems to find the latest developments with Follica immediately. He notified us of the updated Follica website earlier today in a comment to the...
View ArticleBrief Items of Interest, October 2016
Hair loss news first: — Update: A day after I wrote this post, CNN covered JAK inhibitors in a new article (in a pleasant surprise, they also looked at the androgenetic alopecia — AGA — angle)....
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