October 6 2006, 1:34 pm PT | Posted in: Hair Cloning + Hair Transplantation + Other
The excitement continues on the possibilities of cloning hair from special cells located in the hair follicles of healthy hair.
The company says:
We take cells responsible for hair growth, multiply them and then inject them in the head. We tease out the cells responsible for growing a new hair… The hair is taken during a 30-minute operation under anaesthetic and replanted three weeks later after the cells have had time to grow.
The process for harvesting hair from the permanent zone is performed today using my Follicular Unit Extraction technique. If this is to be done on a larger scale, my patented instrumentation (of which, Dr. Jae Pak is co-inventor) will be employed (see USPTO.gov).
One license for this patented technology has been sold to a California robotic company which is presently attempting to automate the entire hair transplant procedure.
Update: Here’s another article about this — BBC News
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I think this is a very exciting sign that hair multiplication is on its way. In the U.S. States, state and federal government is very careful who they give grants to and usually screens life science projects to only help finance the most viable projects. I assume the U.K. operates in a similiar fasion and I believe this development is a sign that Intercytex is legit.
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To Optimist, it should be noted that Dr. Rassman’s “Follicular Unit Extraction” has nothing to do with “hair multiplication” or “hair cloning” as Intercytex is doing. Dr. Rassman’s FUE procedure is NOT a cell-based process. It is just a variation of standard, conventional hair transplantation, with a few differences that maybe make it more efficient and possibly may make results a little bit better. Unlike hair cloning (the Intercytex procedure being developed and tested in the UK), Dr. Rassman’s procedure does not multiply cells and therefore does NOT multiply follicles. Also, look carefully, Dr. Rassman’s robotics patent is not receiving any government grants, unlike the Intercytex robotics procedure which received a huge government grant in the United Kingdom.
Like you, I also fail to see the connection between Intercytex’s hair cloning and FUE. Of course Intercytex will use a method similiar to FUE, because they only need a very small sample, but, yeah I don’t get it. Several doctors have invented tools for FUE. I think if they wanted Dr. Rassman’s they probably would have contacted him by now.
I think this robotics thing is a very important development. I don’t think Intercytex would be working on commercializing a product if they didn’t think it was legit. I’m not sure cloning will be available in by 2010 as they say, but I’m pretty sure we are not looking at “decades” either.
hello Dr: when hair cloning robat supply in iran country?
thanks a lot.
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