Some month ago, I already mentioned a new player in the “hair follicle duplication game”,
Dr. T.K. Shiao (Kansas, U.S.):
http://www.hairsite.com/hair-loss/board_entry-id-71589.html#p71842
Besides the added „More shïtty links and articles by Iron_Man”-comment by the well-known retard “Spanish Idiot”, TODAY, Friday, October 22, 2010, Dr. Tseng-Kuo Shiao presented his “hair follicle duplication” approach/technique at the ISHRS congress in Boston:
Source (page 8): http://www.ishrs.org/PDF/18ASM_ProgramMailer_FINAL-06-03-10.pdf
In short, here is HOW Dr. Shiao’s follicle duplication technique (FIPE) should work:
Besides the fact, that this type of (in vivo) “Follicle Duplication” for donor preservation (+ donor regrowth) is pretty difficult to perform/accomplish, in COMPARISON to the following “well-known” technique …
Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6RqD9qdIgo
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jInUNLY-Yvg&feature=related
Study: Donor hair follicle preservation by partial follicular unit extraction. A method to optimize hair transplantation - PubMed
… at least it seems that Dr. Shiao’s hair follicle duplication approach is based on the following (proven) study – among lots of similar “hair duplication” studies:
http://www.hair2010.org/abstract/183.asp
Anyway, all in all, it seems that in future it COULD be worth to take a closer look at Dr. T.K. Shiao, whether his technique really could represent “a Step Towards Clinical Follicular Duplication” …