Searching through my back catalog of half-baked, not-yet published posts, I came across this one… which is strangely similar to the news about hair regeneration in mice that came out this week. According to the article abstract from in the Journal of Cell Biology researchers led by Nao Osaka observed a similar phenomena in mice with skin wounds. The critical factor seems to be a wound-activated protein kinase called ASK1. “ASK1 was necessary for the up-regulation of a number of immune response factors in wounded skin, including many that are expressed in macrophages.”
Again, all this research is in early days. …read more

Hair Loss Buddy has been trying Beta Sitosterol to regrow hair, and he’s chronicling his results.
Nearly two weeks into my experiment with beta sitosterol, as I expected no hair growth to report yet. It will take a few months before I see any new hair developing. However, I can’t be sure but it seems the rate at which my hair is shedding has decreased, obviously good news. And as for my concern about decreased labido, no worries there — at all. Slightly strange side effects… my voice seems to have become a little deeper and my hair does seem a …read more

It’s a hair replacement kind of week here at Baldiness. The Independent serves up a story about using stem-cell technology to treat baldness. From the article:
Hair is grown by the dermal papilla cells in skin. These can be removed and grown in a laboratory dish. Normally,these lab cells lose their ability to grow hairs, but add keratinocyte stem cells to the dermal papilla cells and the new cells are able to grow hairs when injected back into a bald head. Because no drugs are involved, and the human cells are unmodified, there are no side effects. New growth should become …read more

Here’s a new one on me. According to this story there’s a new way to re-grow hair. All you have to do is sit down… in an ELECTRIC CHAIR!
OK, I’ve got your attention. Here’s the copy from WNEP in Pennsylvania.
Combating baldness is practically an industry unto itself. The littany of products and services aimed at getting peoples’ thinning hair thickly restored is an impressive one.
One distributor in Wichita believes he has a revolutionary item to restore hair simply. All you have to do is sit down in his chair.
The technology behind this chair has been used on chemotherapy patients …read more