Hair Regrowth a Certainty

Baldness Permanently Cured

Thank you, Mullet Mouse!!!  You can, in the not so distant future, have new hair of any type! (red,black,brown….) grown wherever you wish !  Yes, it’s true.  Professor Lin Sung-jan at the National Taiwan University’s Biomedical Engineering Institute has employed tissue-engineering and stem-cell research to combat baldness.   Discovering that dermal papilla cells (hair cells) function to send signals and implement instructions(grow hair), Lin developed biomaterial that can assemble and hair cells.  He also developed a bio-reaction device for use in mass-producing micro-tissues to induce hair follicle regeneration!

“Hair that is too thick or thin will not do,” Lin said.  “If hair color can be controlled, it will be possible to transplant brown or even blond hair.”  Lin has also taken human hair follicles and conducted similar experiments, successfully growing hair on the skin of rodents.   In the future, he hopes to be able to control the size and color of hair grown. Imagine the implication of having hair of any color grow where you want.  You could be completely covered in tiger hair, for example, or say, “I want to be a red head” and actually have red hair GROW!  You could have tufts of fur growing out of your shoulders, ha!  Instead tattooing your girlfriend’s name you could, using different hair colors, do it in base-relief!