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Scientists grow hair
without use of drugs
Associated Press
Scientists transplanted scalp
cells from one person to another
and, for the first time ever, grew
new hair on a human without the
use of drugs.
The approach could someday
enable just about any head to
sprout hair, researchers said.
It also raises hopes of some-
day spurring the growth of new
tissue or even whole organs
inside patients, such as cartilage
in arthritic joints.
“You can use a few cells to
basically regenerate an entire
organ. To me, that’s the mind-
blowing part,” said Angela
Christiano, a Columbia Univer-
sity baldness researcher who did
the genetic analysis for the
British experiment, reported in
Thursday’s issue of the journal
Nature.
The researchers, led by biol-
ogist Colin Jahoda at Durham
University, in England, took
cells at the bottom of hair pores
— or follicles — from Jahoda’s
own scalp and from a col-
league’s. These cells from the so-
called dermal sheath were then
transplanted into the forearm of
Jahoda’s wife.
Within five weeks, the trans-
planted tissue — no bigger than
the head of a pin — made a total
of five fully grown hairs in the
woman’s arm.
The transplanted tissue “is
telling the cells of the recipient:
You will make a hair follicle,”
Jahoda said. The new hair was
genetically male. It was longer,
thicker and darker than arm hair,
but it combined some character-
istics of both donor and recipi-
ent.
Such success had been
achieved before only in animal
experiments.
Current baldness treatments
include hair grafts and certain
drugs. Drugs can slow hair loss
or even produce new hair, but
only in a limited number of peo-
ple. In grafts, hair is lifted from
one section of a man’s scalp and
transplanted whole into a bald
spot on his head. The process
requires a slow, expensive and
potentially painful series of oper-
ations.
The new work suggests the
possibility of a quicker proce-
dure with less cutting and the
creation of new hair in just about
anyone. The cells could be
removed from a person’s own
scalp; or, if that person cannot
produce good quality cells, they
could be collected from someone
else. They could then be multi-
plied through laboratory cloning
before being transplanted. .
Toupees are not out yet. It is
not yet clear whether such newly
grown hair will last, pop up at the
correct angle, and satisfy several
other requirements for cosmeti-
cally acceptable treatments,
researchers said. The micro-
surgery used in the experiment is
complex, too.
The research buttresses the
theory that transplanted hair
cells somehow bypass the body’s
normal rejection mechanism for
foreign tissue.
The researchers picked Ja-
hoda’s wife partly because she is
not related by blood to him or
the other donor. Yet she showed
no signs of tissue rejection.
“Having the hair as an
immunologically privileged or-
gan would be very, very impor-
tant,” said Dr. Michael Bern-
stein, a hair transplant surgeon
who is medical director of the
New Hair Institute in Los
Angeles.
He said Jahoda’s technique
may give hope mainly to old peo-
ple who want new hair, patients
with bad burns, or others who for
genetic reasons fail to make their
own hair. He predicted that bald
men will be able to have, their
own hair cloned within 15 years
or so.
AP Photos of the Century
Giving back to the people
This classic photo, which was picked up and reprinted by news'- Gerald Ford’s running mate for the 1976 election. .When some-
papers nationwide, captures an enthusiastic Nelson Rockefeller, one in a group of heckling SUNY Binghamton students gave
Rockefellpr, then vice president of the United States, was on a Rockefeller the finger, Rockefeller gave it right back, much to the
campaign swing through upstate New York on Sept. 16, 1976, delight of Dole in the background. (AP Photo/Press & Sun-
with Sen. Bob Dole, who had been selected to be President Bulletin, Don Black)
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currently at an all-time low.
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