Will you knock it off already? It’s years away from the marketplace. Relax and take a tranquilizer, already.
Firstly, it is literally available right now. Several labs are selling SCUBE3 online and with demand will come the supply. Safety trials are scheduled to start soon and could be concluded in 1-2 years.
Secondly, it is literally a silver bullet finding in the sense that it reactivates the existing dormant hair follicles. In my opinion that is 100x more promising than any lab grown hair cultures which will hopefully yield natural hair texture, direction, color etc. The chances that they get all of that perfectly right seems pretty low to me.
I literally feel like this discovery is very underappreciated here.
Safety trials will not be completed in 1 year. Your assertion that safety trials could be completed in 2 years is more realistic. Two years is a significant amount of time + how long will it be till we have all the info about dosing, formulation, etc to produce the stuff if it proves to be safe? I think you’re looking at 2 - 4 years till you can safely get your hands on this stuff. This is why people aren’t excited yet. You’re jumping the gun by some years.
"Amplifica is keeping its cards extremely close to the vest for now, and wouldn’t say anything about what type of molecule they’re using or how it works. Fazio would only say that the company is “laser-focused” on hair loss.
“We have two compounds that are going to be studied with the hopeful intent of actually having an impact on hair growth and hair restoration,” he said. More information should be available soon, however: Fazio says Plikus has new research that’s under review in “a prestigious journal” which should give some insight into what Amplifica is targeting with these first drugs."
Sounds like they may be trying to do computer drug design, maybe to replicate the active site of SCUBE3 or something that would have the same effect, without having to use the whole molecule (which is huge at over 900 amino acids).
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Interesting take… i was wondering if something like that is possible, also to reduce risk of the cancerous properties of scube3
@hairman2 Yes I think it potentially could. Not that we know there are any cancerous properties of injecting it into the skin of an adult. Since we know that in non balding people it already exists in the tissue all over the scalp, and in balding people it exists in non balding areas, I don’t think we have to worry much about cancer. But the FDA will still want to verify this because that’s what they do.
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