Posted on 11/04/2025 5:24:53 PM PST by nickcarraway
A cure for baldness could be on the horizon. Researchers from Taiwan University say they have discovered a serum that could potentially regrow hair in just 20 days. The study, published in the journal Cell Metabolism, showed that fat cells under the skin can restart hair growth.
The researchers used mouse skin samples to monitor changes to the fat tissue under the skin, as well as to the hair follicles and the cells that help hair grow, after they caused small injuries to trigger certain reactions, according to a press release.
After skin injury, fat cells began breaking down stored fat in a process called lipolysis. Fatty acids were then released into the skin, which acted as a signal for hair stem cells to grow. When the scientists stopped the fat cells from breaking down fat, it prevented hair from growing.
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They still make that spray stuff in a can don’t they?
This obsession with baldness! Where is the permanent solution to gray hair? That’s what I want. I’ve got hair to spare.
Tell me this is the “Beatles Vaccine “. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeaaahhh! 🥴
What are they waiting for? They will make a fortune on the market.
They’ve been promoting the regrowth of hair on mice for decades. I’ve been shaving my head since the Army. I can care less but new hair would be funny and interesting.
So hair transplants are out now.
New!
I just come it up from my back.
Sheesh, “comb” not “come”.
Problem is that it comes out of my ears and nose. Makes for the world's worst combover.
You’ve hit it. “Hair to Spare”. You get not one, not two, but three bottles for just the paltry sum of $14.95 + small Shipping and handling charges of $27.37. You’ll be so hairy you’ll have to get a vacuum. Just call BR-549 ask for junior at Aceme Hairy Leg Emporium.
It’s the jackpot Clyde!
All they need to do is make a drug that convinces your scalp that it’s an ear. You’d get a full head of hair in about 4 hours.
I actually prefer to be bald. For one thing, I’m hoping to get the lead in any Kojak remake.
So to be honest, I’d prefer a safe cream that would remove all the hair.
china can’t invent crap anymore because the real chinese culture went to taiwan and gave us chips and bubble teas
Oh that is so wrong. But I can picture people doing it. Heck, they make merkins don’t they?
So what’s he doing with that gopher under his nose?
Ha ha. Maybe even a nose.
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