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  • First-of-its-kind hair restoration method may grow follicles on bald spots

    10/22/2013 6:18:34 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 35 replies
    CBS ^ | October 21, 2013, 6:12 PM | By Ryan Jaslow
    A cure for baldness has long eluded scientists, but a group of researchers say they have created a first-of-its kind hair restoration method that may actually get a person to grow new hair. This could be especially helpful for women, burn victims and other hair loss patients who can't be helped with traditional hair loss methods. The researchers had previously found certain cells that cause hair growth -- called dermal papilla cells -- could be harvested from rodents and transplanted back onto their skin to create new follicles. When similar methods were used to create hair on human skin samples,...