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Soon There Will Be Unlimited Hair

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout' started by Invisible Fan, Jul 25, 2019.

  1. Invisible Fan

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    https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2019/07/hair-for-all/594826/

    Recently a series of scientific publications has explored advances that involve both stem-cell research and 3-D printing, with the goal of cloning a person’s actual hair and then inserting it into his or her scalp—in tremendous, unlimited quantities.

    “For a long time, we’ve been saying this is 10 years away,” says Robert Bernstein, a dermatologist in Manhattan who specializes in hair transplantation. “But now it actually might be less.”


    I figure I got 10 more years before I have to crack open a jar of dead babies and slather it on my smooth shiny scalp.
     
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    Even if they figure out the follicle problem, replacing it, it seems like they would still need to figure how to stop whatever process is causing the follicles to shorten hair to microscopic levels. Supposedly male hormones and the receptors for those hormones. They'd have to protect it somehow.
     
  3. LosPollosHermanos

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    You can get hair transplants.
     
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    Lebron says hi
     
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    elon musk has entered the chat
     
  6. jo mama

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    why do a dangerous medical procedure to get hair when you can just get it out of a can?

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    this dude is 32, by the way!
     
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    i think his hair is bi polar it doesn't know what the **** it wants to do
     
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    I thought soon there will be hairless monkeys?
     
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    And you are looking forward to this...why?
     
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    "The babes are back!"

     

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