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Big bold bald claim could leave you scratching your head - before your new hair grows in

Xconomy updates us on Follica, a local company that says it might have a new baldness cure that involves scraping the top layer of your chrome-dome scalp off and then applying a particular drug that seems to stimulate hair growth in wounded skin.

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They may or may not have success with this treatment, but reading about it gave me an idea for another one. If somebody here uses it to make a billion dollars, I'd appreciate it if you could toss me a few bucks someday when I'm living in a sewer and using a rat for a pillow.

With the advent of face transplants and the like, why not a scalp transplant? Folks such as myself, completely bald on top, could have their old bald scalp removed and be given the scalp of a recently-deceased hairy person.

(Actually, now that I think of it, instead of tossing me the money, just give me the treatment after it has been tested and proven to work. Then give me the money.)

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I'm assuming this post is basically product placement. Not that I blame you for it.

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I've posted about this company before, because I find the whole concept bizarrely fascinating - the whole thing is based on the theory that sliced-up skin often grows some hair as it heals - and because they're local. It's no different than me posting about MIT's three-armed robot bartenders or Boston Dynamics' cinderblock-flinging robohorses.

I've never actually talked to anybody from the company, let alone accepted giant bags full of cash from them for the incredibly lucrative UHub bump.

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