Zum ersten Mal wurden im Labor voll funktionsfähige Haarfollikel gezüchtet. Eine Mäusestudie identifizierte ein fehlendes wesentliches Glied: einen Zelltyp, der die Regeneration unterstützt und das volle Haarwachstum und die Gewebeanhaftung auslöst.
https://www.sciencealert.com/fully-functional-hair-follicles-have-been-grown-in-the-lab-for-the-first-time
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>We’re another step closer to finding a real cure for baldness. For the first time, scientists have created functional hair follicles in the lab that naturally cycle through periods of growth.
>To make it work, a team of [researchers](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006291X26002238?via%3Dihub) from the US and Japan identified a missing essential link: a cell type that supports regeneration and triggers full hair growth and tissue attachment.
>Before we get ahead of ourselves, we should point out that this research was carried out in mice. With human tests still pending, we’re still a long way from translating the findings into a new treatment for hair loss.
>However, the discovery does support new approaches to restore follicle growth where hair is no longer being produced naturally.
>In particular, it defines a core, three-cell ‚recipe‘ that’s required to produce a completely functional hair follicle in the lab.
>“This study provides significant contributions to the basic and medical science of adult organ-inductive potential stem cells and their niches in organ morphogenesis and the adult hair cycle,“ write the researchers in their published paper.
Once again mice got even more hair.
See you in 10 years for the cure.
Might this also be a potential cure for tinnitus if we can trigger new cilia to grow in the inner ear?
Can we start working on permanent hair removal? I feel like this is a huge market that is mostly filled with half scams and the other half „meh it works in theory but its not permanent „
Finally, my testicles will feel confident again!