Hair cloning is a new progressive method of combating alopecia (alopecia). Scientists in New York have proven that transplanting healthy follicles will help to cope with the disease within 1-2 years.
Scientific developments
According to statistics, more than half of women and menafter 50 years suffer from hair loss. Because of this, many complexes are formed, people feel less attractive. A person can remain without hair as a result of burns. In this case, you will also need a living cell transplant in the area of baldness.
Scientists at the University of California have identified areas of healthy hair from volunteers and placed them in a nutrient medium. A few days later it was noticed that the cells began to divide intensively.
Thus, the researchers came to the conclusion that healthy follicles transferred to the scalp, can take root, and the hair, respectively, will begin to grow.
When will the research end?
First, hair was cloned ontoanimals. Laboratory rats were used in the experiment. Scientists were convinced that the survival of the follicles is not bad. Further it is necessary to conduct research in humans. This will take at least 5-10 years.
During this time, researchers must make surethat follicles take root well. In addition, part of the experiment is to monitor the growth and structure of transplanted hair, which will also take several years. Also, the research time depends on the financing of the project. If the investment of money stops, then you can wait for the end of the study soon.
The hair growth cycle has several periods and theseprocesses have not been fully studied by physicians and researchers. To start the cloning process, it is necessary to consistently solve the problems that arise during each growth cycle.
Even if scientists quickly understand all the nuances of growthhair, you still need to first reproduce the processes in the laboratory. Here, the time for research increases, because with errors at each new stage, it is necessary to start growing cells artificially from the beginning. It is likely that the study will be delayed for 10 years.
Project cons
Unfortunately, the studies are not so smooth.Scientists have not yet decided on the question of how deep an implant needs to be placed in order for the percentage of survival rate to increase. Also, the transplantation method is not yet approved.
Hair cloning (photo) on dark hair wasalready carried out several dozen times. The results, unfortunately, are not always positive. Sometimes during cell division, the color changes somewhat and in a person the hair on the transplanted areas changes shade.
This problem can be solved mechanically by dyeing the hair. But this option is not always suitable for males. Scientists are actively working on the solution.
Short hair cloning happens this way.the same way. It is more problematic for people with short haircuts to take quality material for implantation. Therefore, before the procedure, patients are encouraged to slightly grow hair.
Who will not be able to clone hair?
There are situations in which this procedure does nothelps to cope with baldness. For example, cloning will not help if a patient has developed alopecia as a result of a violation of the immunological processes in the body. With this type of disease, unfortunately, the degree of survival of implants will be very low.
Также учеными отмечено, что через время даже те hair that successfully settled down and began to grow after transplantation will eventually fall out. This process will be associated with an immunological response. If the doctor is unable to cure the underlying disease, then hair cloning will not be able to save the patient from baldness.
Тяжело справиться с алопецией у женщин, которые lose hair as a result of hormonal changes in the body that occur on the background of menopause. It will be possible to help them only after the completion of this process. In this case, the hormonal background will be established, and the survival rate of implants will increase.
Hair transplantation is now being successfully used.This process is similar to cloning, but for it they don’t grow healthy hair in a test tube, but take material from donors. At the moment, this is a good way to cope with baldness in humans.
