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Big bold bald claim could leave you scratching your head - before your new hair grows in
By adamg on Mon, 06/03/2013 - 4:05pm
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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Billion Dollar Idea
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
I'm assuming this post is basically product placement. Not that I blame you for it.
Wrong assumption
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.