If your hair up north is heading south, you may have considered seeing a doctor to help you cover your shiny scalp or have even taken matters into your own hands. But the medications don't always work, and toupees can look fake, so what's a guy with a receding hair line to do?
A company in Britain claims to have found the answer: hair cloning. With a procedure that reproduces new hair from the healthy follicles on your head, Interytex claims to have successfully implanted cloned hair cells into five of seven patients, giving these lucky guys a full head of hair. There are, as of yet, no published results, but the company says that it is now moving on to further trials on men with male pattern baldness and even hopes to try it on women facing bare scalps from alopecia.
While it may be years before this procedure is available to the public, hair cloning is raising hope for many men—and women—with ever-receding hairlines.
"[Hair cloning] could be used in any patient, but it'll be most used in someone who doesn't have enough of his or her own hair for transplantation," says Dr. Walter Unger, clinical professor of dermatology at Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York.
The chance to fill an almost limitless amount of scalp is what makes hair cloning so promising.
Sprouting New Locks
Today, many men turn to hair implants to cover their bald spots. And implants can look like the real thing. But as doctors remove hair follicles from where the hair is growing and implant them in spots w...
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