Hair Cloning

Regenerative medicine is potentially the wave of the future with medicine and the repair and restoration of tissues and organs. It includes cell therapy, tissue engineering, and stem cells, among other things. The potential for vastly improving clinical outcomes through regenerative medicine is great.

The eventual cloning of hair will likely eventually supplant current hair transplantation techniques. A small sample of hair follicles is taken from the patient under local anesthetic. The dermal papilla cells are dissociated from the rest of the follicle. These cells are cultured and expanded.

They are then microinjected intra-dermal into the patient's scalp. The treatment is performed under local anesthetic and comprises a single procedure of superficial injections, each injection delivering a tiny amount of solution containing dermal papilla cells. These cells stimulate the generation of new hairs when injected in close proximity to the epidermal cells which generate the hair. New hair growth starts to be noticeable in three months.