Introducing the hype about hair cloning

Any modern hair transplant can improve your day to day appearance but in order to achieve a true change up you need more than that.

The limitation is that you can only try to transplant hair as you can find it available in the donor areas and when you get older you get balder and you also need to cover larger areas while getting less and less donor hair available.

Now comes the question : how it would be if hair cloning were true ?

The question and answer seems easy when looking at a simple hair follicle but when you examine one you find out that they are more complicated because they contain skin cells, blood vessels, fat, nerves, glands and muscles. Some possible methods for hair cloning could be genetic engineering of the cells as well as trying to develop some techniques that will allow you to multiply your hair cells.

Hair cloning – The beginning

Speaking of 1990′s, a British scientist with the name of Dr. Jahoda took dermal sheath cells ( these cells come from the lowest part of a

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hair follicle ) from his own scalp and put them on his wife’s forearm. These cells stimulated new hair growth and when analyzed, they contained the genetic code of both of them.

If you are wondering why is this important for future reference in cloning, the dermal sheath cells act as inducer cells that as the name suggests will induce new hair growth even if you don’t get all the hair follicle transplanted.

They are immune privileged organs which means that they will not be rejected by any other person when transplanted. These inducer cells are fibroblasts. They are named like that because they are the easiest to culture and a single donor which would donate a small portion of the donor area could serve as an unlimited supplier of hair.

Hair cloning – there are some problems tho :

• The single thing that you need to know for now is that dermal sheath cells are quite difficult to isolate but they have been proven to have the ability to grow new cells.
• The new cell needs to grow in the right direction ( this means upward )
• Cultured cells can change their behavior and stop growing hair over a period of time
• FDA will block the procedures some years
• Hair cloning – the use of genetic engineering for the isolation of hair loss genes

Hair cloning – genetic engineering for the isolation of hair loss genes

Trying a different approach, instead of replicating a whole new organism, genetic engineering only alters the DNA of particular cells for the ability to manufacture proteins to correct genetic defects or produce similar beneficial changes.

What a genetic engineering will involve ?

• Cloning of the genes
• Insertion of the gene inside the cell
• Isolation of the gene

Dr Cristiano from the Columbie University is the first man to discover the hair loss gene. She found that some people that are born with this gene have their hair fall out and never grow back. Speaking of which, too bad that this isn’t the gene that is causing the bad male pattern baldness.

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