Stem Cell "Gun" Grows New Skin

Stem cell; cell based hair therapy
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» I emailed Joerg Gerlac concerning hairloss and here is his reply:
»
» "Thank you for your interest in our work.
» I would like to comment that the patient was shown around a year after the
» injury…

Thanks for inquiring superhl, that is unfortunate news. But the answer clearly lies in that region of stem cells regenerating injured skin or injecting/turning on progenitor cells so they can stimulate follicles to grow hair. The cure always seems tantalizingly close then we get the rug pulled out from under us.

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» The cure always seems tantalizingly close then we get the rug pulled out
» from under us.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

that should read… “from over us”

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» I emailed Joerg Gerlac concerning hairloss and here is his reply:
»
» “Thank you for your interest in our work.
» I would like to comment that the patient was shown around a year after the
» injury. They say that the wound was healed after 4 days, which is true in
» the sense that the wound was already dry and the patient could go home
» without dressing or bandage, but it did not look like a year later in the
» video. I am very sorry to say that our work does relate only to acute
» burns. We can not offer treatments for a situation several month after the
» injury.
» This technology is not able to address scars or other conditions like
» vitiligo, vascular conditions, hair loss or acne.
» I am not aware of groups which could offer a solution.
» 2 papers on all cases are submitted but not yet published by the journals.
» Thanks for your mail,
» my best greetings, Jorg”

Can you email him again and ask him if the “regenerated” skin has hair follicles on it (even small hairs)? Like if a person had burns on his arm, and the skin gun was used there, would hair grow back in a normal fashion on the arm? Have they seen anything to that effect?

I understand of course his only interest is in treating burn victims, and kudos to him, but if this is regenerating normal skin with all normal skin characteristics (which includes hair … almost all skin on your body has some hair on it, even if you can’t see it), then it does have implications for hair loss even if its unintended.