How to Hair Growth for 2012 can be outline in just 7 easy steps. Step #1: Stop using shampoos with sulfates! Chemical additives in shampoos known as sulfates (sodium laureth sulfate and ammonium laureth sulfate) are what cause the lather most people expect when they use shampoos. Sodium Lareth Sulfate (SLS) is a powerful degreaser that is also used to clean garage floors and car engines. Unfortunately, these chemicals tend to dry out your hair, strip it of its color and, worst of all, may damage delicate hair follicles in people with a genetic predisposition to hair ...
The Vancouver-based biotech company RepliCel Life Sciences is forging ahead with its clinical trials for hair regeneration therapies. The company was established on the research foundations of two scientists, Kevin McElwee and Rolf Hoffmann, who have done pioneering research into what are called dermal sheath cup cells. These cells are located in hair follicles and contain stem cell-like characteristics that, the scientists believe, have the potential to stimulate regrowth of non-producing hair follicles or regeneration of existing ones. The company is pushing ahead with its research despite increasing public skepticism that cellular regeneration of hair follicles will ever be a ...
The biotech company Divine Skin Inc.announced the release of the first topical hair-growth treatment based on astressin-B, a peptide newly discovered to regrow hair on bald mice. Divine Skin becomes the first biotech developer to synthesize and commercialize the peptide for human use in a cosmetic product, to be marketed as Spectral.F7 under the DS Laboratories brand. "Astressin-B is a very complex peptide that is difficult to synthesize," said Divine Skin CEO Daniel Khesin. "So we are especially excited that the resulting product will be reasonably priced as well as cutting-edge, considering the extraordinary development schedule and cost." Astressin-B sparked extensive media ...
For the first time, German scientists have used human adult stem cells to develop hair follicles in a laboratory, from which hair then grows naturally. The Berlin Technical University researchers, who have taken part in the advanced stem cell research, believe that they may have the ability to transcend the barrier between animal and human hair follicle growth from stem cells within a year. The treatment provides new hope for people suffering from hair loss. Only a few hair follicles would need to be taken from the"patient" and used to generate as much new hair as is needed, which ...
A Quebec cosmetics company, Unipex, has begun marketing a new hair loss ingredient that, it says, can stimulate new hair growth. The incredient, Capixyl, is a "biomimetic peptide" combined with a red clover extract. Based on the combined and synergistic action of its two ingredients, Capixyl supposedly prevents hair miniaturization, favors a better hair anchoring, and reduces inflammation, an aggravating factor in hair loss. The company claims that clinical tests demonstrate Capixyl's effectiveness in increasing the hair density by 46%. This makes Capixyl more effective for hair regrowth than many other products on the market, the company adds, ...
Aderans Research Institute (ARI) is currently in the middle of Phase II trials of its much-anticipated, much-delayed new cellular hair regeneration technology. The company hopes to "encourage" follicular cells to reproduce themselves via a method ARI calls the Ji Gami™ process, resulting in a virtually unlimited number of hair-generating cellular units produced. During this process, a small piece of tissue is removed from the neckline. Cells are cultivated in controlled conditions where they are encouraged to multiply by the addition of proprietary growth media. When enough new cells are formed, they are returned to the scalp, where they are ...
In one of the first studies to look at the population behavior of a large pool of stem cells in thousands of hair follicles -- as opposed to the stem cell of a single hair follicle -- Keck School of Medicine of USC scientists deciphered how hair stem cells in mice and rabbits can communicate with each other and encourage mutually coordinated regeneration, according to an article published in the April 29 edition of the journal Science. The team, which collaborated with mathematical biologists from the University of Oxford, analyzed over many months the changes in the hair growth patterns on ...
Bald is beautiful, according to some fashion commentators who believe that hair loss is currently in vogue. Icons of the fashion world are now arguing that Kayla Martell – the fashion queen from Delaware, who has been in the news for proudly showing off her bald head – is the perfect example of this trend. Martell has alopecia areata. This condition also affected the British TV presenter, Gail Porter, who like Martell, has not been afraid to appear in public without a wig. Indeed there are many examples of celebrities who have proudly gone bald in recent years. Ever since Sinead O'Connor ...
New research from the folks at the University of Pennsylvania appears to be validating the long-held hope that stem cells may provide a genuine cure for hair loss. And the "signaling proteins" in a product like Cygenx AQ Advanced Hair Complex may actually be more crucial than we realized. The Journal of Clinical Investigation just reported on the new research at the University of Pennsylvania. Here's how ABC News summed up the research: There is new research supporting the hopes of 50 million American men: they might be able to get their hair back. The secret to a baldness breakthrough just might ...
Two leading New York and North Carolina hair transplant surgeons and researchers, Gary Hitzig, M.D. and Jerry Cooley, M.D.., have become the first medical doctors to successfully clone hair using an FDA-cleared wound healing powder called MatriStem® MicroMatrix(TM). Using this powder, Dr. Hitzig and Dr. Cooley have been able to create a technique that multiplies the number of hair follicles in an area that had previously stopped growing hair - a MAJOR breakthrough that many hair restoration researchers have been trying to accomplish. They have some very impressive "before and after" shots available at... MatriStem MicroMatrix... ...
There is a new, potentially important player in the field of stem cell therapies for hair loss... and they've just made a deal for a ton of cash. The new player is the Japanese stem cell development company Biomaster. It's recently announced that its receiving an massive infusion of investment funding from the Chinese company, Shenzhen Beike Biotechnology. You can read about Biomaster at... Biomaster, Inc... Biomaster specializes in research and commercialization of adipose-based stem cell therapies. Beike, along with two investment companies, has taken a significant share in Biomaster, secured a seat on the board, and is ...
A new study conducted at a Paris lab provides evidence that hair growth can be stimulated through the the use of low-level laser beams. The results of the study, conducted by Laboratoire Bio-EC in Paris, were presented last month by Dr. Michael Hamblin at the 17th Annual Meeting of the International Society of Hair Restoration Surgeons (ISHRS). Hamblin, an associate Professor at the Harvard Medical School/Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, presented data that showed low-level laser energy stimulated hair growth in lab cultures. "Isolated follicles were placed in the Philpott hair culture medium, exposed to the laser ...
Follica, Inc., a small, privately-held Boston pharmaceutical company, is taking a radically new approach to treating hair loss -- one that could revolutionize the new push to develop a cure for baldness. Unlike recent efforts to reverse hair loss by stimulating or transplanting existing hair follicles, Follica is attempting something far more radical: It is attempting to actually stimulate the development of new hair follicles! The company has an exclusive, worldwide license from the University of Pennsylvania to use and commercialize a breakthrough technology for what they call follicle neogenesis. Dr. George Cotsarelis discovered that the physical ...
A Hair Club client has recently launched a new "video blog," or "vlog, documenting his hair transplant procedure from start to finish. Julian White, who recently underwent hair transplantation with Dr. Jon Gaffney, a Hair Club managed physician, wants to share his journey with other hair loss sufferers. The new forum is called "From Bald to Bold: A Patient's Journal" and is located here. The company wants patients who suffer from hair loss, men and women, to follow Julian through his hair transplant procedure blog, with video, pictures and personal stories that will be captured on Hair Club's website. ...
HairDX -- a pioneer in the development of new genetic tests for accurately predicting male and female hair lossa -- announced recently the launch of a European subsidiary, HairDX Europe. HairDX is a subsidiary of PharmaGenoma, Inc., a "pharmacogenomics" research and development company based in Irvine, California, and Hasselt, Belgium. "HairDX Europe expands the company’s leadership in hair dermatology, and global availability of the genetic tests for Androgenetic Alopecia," the company said in a statement. "This follows the recent announcement of distribution agreements with Biodue in Italy, and Aderans in Japan. HairDX’s revolutionary genetic tests in Italy, and ...
Currently there are several ways to grow back hair. Included are those that involve products by prescription, shampoos, and medical treatments of various types. One of the most exciting news on hair regrowth comes through genetic research scientists. There is even a breakthrough in stem cell manipulation and in genetic cloning. Both of these methods ...…
When you have hair loss, you want someone to talk to who understands what you are going through. You can learn a lot from other people who have been there and done that. In addition, it helps to vent your feelings and frustrations to people who understand them. This is why there are so many ...…
Anyone who has been following the latest treatments for hair loss has heard of Dutasteride, sold by GlaxoSmithKline under the trade name Avodart. Chemically, it is a dual 5-a reductase inhibitor that stops the conversion of testosterone to dihydrotestosterone (DHT). Most researchers now believe that one of the primary causes in both male and female ...…
If you have found your hair thinning as you age, there’s no reason to resign yourself to sparse locks! You can take advantage of any number of safe and all-natural products to help your hair grow back thicker. Some products counteract the physiological effects of DHT (Dihydrotestosterone), the hormone which causes hair follicles to shed ...…
A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study of the topical eye medication Latanoprost (Brand name: Xalatan) has found it significantly improves hair density in young women suffering from mild hair loss. The study, published in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology, examined sixteen young males with mild androgenetic alopecia (Hamilton II-III). A 0.1% solution of ...…
A new study has linked Female Pattern Hair Loss with so-called metabolic syndrome in premenopausal women. Translated, this means that doctors have found a correlation between increased belly fat, elevated blood fats, high blood pressure and elevated blood sugar levels on the one hand and thinning hair in women on the other. It’s not clear, ...…
If you want new hair, don’t just sit around and complain. Take action. There are a number of new treatments available that can help you grow new hair in a matter of weeks. Here’s a quick 7 week program to help you grow new hair in 2012: Week #1: Begin taking biotin and other hair ...…
Treatments for restoring hair on bald women or women with thinning hair are not very common. However, all the research that is done, which relates to specifically men in the end, have provided valuable information for women as well. Usually, by reason of deduction, scientists are discovering that women’s hair loss is much more complex ...…
We’re asked all the time, “What to do for hair growth?” The means different things to different people. For completely bald men, it means what undiscovered magic new treatments will restore their hair to the way it was when they were young.” For young men, it means how can they stop their hair from receding. ...…
By Dr. D. Leatherman One of the primary ingredients in both ReGenrXx Hair Serum 90 and Luminessce Anti-Aging Serum is “Adipose Derived Stem Cells Conditioned Medium (ADSC-CM)”. This potent ingredient stimulates both collagen synthesis and migration of fibroblasts, and accelerates wound healing. Adipose derived stem cells are captured by extracting fat cells from human adults. ...…
We get asked all the time: When, O when, will “they” come up with a cure for hair loss? People have been hearing talk about a “stem cell” cure for hair loss for years now – ever since we launched this website about three years ago. Nevertheless, there are a handful of companies that are ...…
Avacor is a specialized line of products designed for the treatment and prevention of hair loss. The products are designed and formulated to prevent further hair loss, and even to reverse a current trend of balding by helping the scalp and hair follicles to revitalize and re-grow hair in areas where the hairs have begun ...…
Regenix is an all-natural treatment for hair loss, using substances which are approved by the Food and Drug Administration as safe substances for use in the body. Regenix doesn’t require a prescription, and doesn’t cause adverse side effects. One of the features of Regenix treatment which makes it stand out from other purported treatments for ...…
Dutch researcher and hair restoration expert Dr. Coen Gho has been publicizing an innovative experimental treatment for hair loss for many years through his Hair Science Institute, which operates clinics in Amsterdam, Maastricht, London and Vienna. His hair loss treatment, he says, is a patented hair multiplication technique developed by the Hair Science Institute and ...…
Quite simply, Hair Genesis is an all natural hair loss treatment program. It combines vitamins for hair growth, a shampoo, and a serum treatment to provide a whole performance hair growth treatment program. However, Hair Genesis is anything but simple. In fact, it is a complex combination of five alpha-reductase inhibitors. These all-natural ingredients have ...…
Replicel Life Science Inc. is developing a technology that may become the world’s very first, minimally invasive, permanent hair loss solution. Replicel’s founders and researchers are from established universities in Canada and Germany and have studied immunology, hair biology and hair growth for more than two decades. In 2000s, Dr. Kevin McElwee and Dr. Rolf ...…
What is PRP exactly? And how does it grow hair? And what does Acell Matristem have to do with all this? Well, those are all good questions. Let’s start with Acell Matristem first. Accel Matristem is a Food and Drug Authority cleared extracelluar matrix (ECM), wound-healing powder from pig bladders developed by ACell Inc. It ...…
What is Latisse? The medication Latisse (known by its generic name Bimatoprost) was originally touted by the “cosmeceutical” industry as a solution to the issue of thinning eyelashes among women. Marketed alongside Botox and breast implants and other beauty fixes, Latisse held the distinction of being the only drug approved by the FDA for the ...…
Comment la croissance des cheveux pour 2012 peut être aperçu en seulement 7 étapes faciles. Étape # 1: Arrêtez d’utiliser des shampoings avec des sulfates! Les additifs chimiques dans les shampoings connu comme les sulfates (sodium laureth sulfate et laureth sulfate d’ammonium) sont ce qui cause la mousse la plupart des gens s’attendent quand ils ...…
Wie Hair Growth für 2012 kann Umrisse werden in nur 7 einfachen Schritten. Schritt # 1: Stop mit Shampoos mit Sulfaten! Chemische Zusätze in Shampoos als Sulfate (Natriumlaurethsulfat und Ammonium Laureth Sulfate) bekannt sind, was dazu führen den Schaum die meisten Leute erwarten, wenn sie Shampoos verwenden. Sodium Lareth Sulfate (SLS) ist eine leistungsstarke Reiniger, ...…
A treatment for hair offered for women, available by prescription in Europe but not approved for use in the United States, is the compound cyproterone acetate with ethinyloestradiol, marketed with the brand name Diane. The medication is a compound blending an estrogen hormone (estradiol) with cytpoterone, a combination which blocks the effects on the body ...…
There are many misconceptions about sulfate shampoo and hair loss. Most shampoos contain a combination of a surfactant and an antisurfactant, which act together to create the cleansing lather which most people associate with a good shampoo. The surfactant itself is a molecule that can “grab onto” water with one end and grease with the ...…
How to Hair Growth for 2012 can be outline in just 7 easy steps. Step #1: Stop using shampoos with sulfates! Chemical additives in shampoos known as sulfates (sodium laureth sulfate and ammonium laureth sulfate) are what cause the lather most people expect when they use shampoos. Sodium Lareth Sulfate (SLS) is a powerful degreaser ...…
Minoxidil is a compound used primarily as a medication to arrest hair loss and—in some cases—stimulate regrowth of hair where balding has begun. The compound functions as a vasodilator, meaning it expands the small capillary blood vessels which supply nutrients to the scalp’s hair follicles. Nourishing the follicles allows them to continue sustaining the growth ...…
Ovation, the company behind Mega-Tek and Ovation Cell Therapy, created quite a buzz in the hair treatment community with their aggressive marketing and radio ad campaigns in 2008. In the end, it seemed like much ado about nothing and the Ovation Cell Therapy did not prove to be as successful as its counterpart Mega-Tek, which ...…
Stem cell research has been the center of attention in the scientific world for the past few decades. This promising yet highly controversial research has also been the subject of many scientific debates. While it may hold the key to many incurable diseases, there is still a long way to go before a stem cell ...…
Hair loss is a fairly common problem among adults but it can also affect teenagers and, unlike adults, teenagers have a harder time dealing with it due to peer pressure and the unsaid need to look good. With a myriad of cures and medications available in the market, looking for a solution to hair loss ...…
The widely-respected Xconomy website has reported that hair loss startup Follica has raised money to begin a human trial of its hair cloning technology. According to the company’s website, the company has obtained “an exclusive, worldwide license from the University of Pennsylvania to develop and commercialize a breakthrough technology that has been demonstrated to stimulate ...…
Research for hair loss in women is minimal thus far. However, all the research that is don, which relates to specifically men in the end, have provided valuable information for women as well. Usually, by reason of deduction, scientists are discovering that women’s hair loss is much more complex to understand. We would all like ...…
For years, Rogaine [aka Finesteride aka Propecia] was approved for the treatment of hair loss. Rogaine was discovered by researchers that was seeking information on an unrelated issue. As in so many cases of medical research, Rogaine or Finesteride was a compound that was expected to do one thing and did another. During the research, ...…
Thanks to researchers at Columbia, Stanford and Rockefeller Universities, a new treatment for hair loss that could result in hair regrowth may be on the horizon. The gene called APCDD1 is found to be the cause of a progressive form of hair loss that begins in childhood. The hair loss is caused when the follicles ...…
Astressin-B is a chemical compound that blocks certain hormones that are known to cause increased stress. It was developed by Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, California for research in CRF signaling pathways. Following their study, a team from UCLA began research on stress and hormone relationships in brain-gut disorders using mice that ...…
Hair loss and the ability to regenerated hair growth has become an important study in genetics and stress related diseases in the last 30 years. Is there one treatment that really works is the question that most people that experience this highly emotional issue ask. The short answer is maybe. According to medical specialists in ...…
Hair multiplication for hair loss/hair regrowth treatment is not the same as hair cloning. The hair cloning procedure is not approved for human testing or research at this point. The primary difference between cloning and multiplication is that cloning is done outside the body and multiplication is done in the scalp. Cloning uses genes and ...…
Copper peptides are a natural complex consisting of three different amino acids called a tripeptide. This copper affinity can be found in human plasma, urine, and even saliva. The extraction of it can have significant positive effects for skin care and especially hair growth. The active ingredients found in copper peptides are folligen and tricomin. ...…
RU-58841/PSK-3841 is now officially registered and referred to by the name of PSK3841 and was developed in France. The research of Hoechst Marion and Roussel-Uclaf contributed to this potent and non-steroidal androgen antagonist. It is fully capable of binding regulatory domains of the receptor and the ligand. The most well-known fact about this topical compound ...…
Eucapil® is a new approach towards battling hair loss and can successfully by going directly to the source of the problem, hormones. The degeneration of hair roots is reversed by using this remedy that was specifically designed to promote growth and reduce the possibility of baldness. This new product that aims to not only eliminate ...…
The Vancouver-based biotech company RepliCel Life Sciences is forging ahead with its clinical trials for hair regeneration therapies. The company was established on the research foundations of two scientists, Kevin McElwee and Rolf Hoffmann, who have done pioneering research into what are called dermal sheath cup cells. These cells are located in hair follicles and ...…
For the first time, German scientists have used human adult stem cells to develop hair follicles in a laboratory, from which hair then grows naturally. The Berlin Technical University researchers, who have taken part in the advanced stem cell research, believe that they may have the ability to transcend the barrier between animal and human ...…
The anti-hair loss ingredient Aminexil is extremely popular in Europe, especially with women. Many Europeans claim it makes a dramatic difference in slowing and even reversing hair loss in women. But like many health care products available in Europe, Aminexil is not widely available in the U.S. — at least, until recently. Aminexil is one ...…
The “off label” use of the eyelash-growing drug Latisse is gaining both new adherents and new respect. According to a new article on MSNBC, the drug is now being used by many mainstream physicians as a hair loss treatment: Latisse may soon be inducted into the hair club for men (and women, too). The drug, ...…
A new study in that riveting journal, the New Annals of Pharmacotherapy (Ann Pharmacother June 2010 vol. 44 no. 6 1090-109), concludes that the male prostate and hair loss drug, finasteride, offers little benefit to women who suffer from pattern hair loss. Women who suffer from hair loss can use lower dose minoxidil, but, beyond ...…
Androgenetic alopecia is by far the most common cause of hair loss amongst men and a serious problem for many women. Millions of women worldwide have turned to Ovation Cell Therapy as their treatment for choice when they notice their hair thinning. The active ingredient in Ovation products is Panthenol, which is a widely used ...…
DS Laboratories, the makers of the immensely popular Spectral DNC hair loss product, may have a full-blown blockbuster product on the horizon: The first-ever topical hair regrowth solution based on the recent discovery of the peptide Astressin-B, which was able to regrow hair on bald mice. The company’s first batches of the product sold out ...…
Provillus is a dietary supplement that its manufacturers claim may aid hair growth and may actually reverse hair loss. It supposedly does this by retarding the production of a hormone derivative called DHT (Dihydrotestosterone), which obstructs hair follicles, leading to thinner hair and, after some time, to baldness in men. More controversially, Provillus is also ...…
A standard follicular unit transfer operation requires the removal of donor strip of hair from the rear of the head from where the follicular unit grafts are examined under a microscope. These grafts are then preserved in saline and are then transplanted on a hair loss area on the crown area of the scalp. Given ...…
A Quebec cosmetics company, Unipex, has begun marketing a new hair loss ingredient that, it says, can stimulate new hair growth. The incredient, Capixyl, is a “biomimetic peptide” combined with a red clover extract. Based on the combined and synergistic action of its two ingredients, Capixyl supposedly prevents hair miniaturization, favors a better hair anchoring, ...…
The biotech company Divine Skin Inc.announced the release of the first topical hair-growth treatment based on astressin-B, a peptide newly discovered to regrow hair on bald mice. Divine Skin becomes the first biotech developer to synthesize and commercialize the peptide for human use in a cosmetic product, to be marketed as Spectral.F7 under the DS ...…
Researchers know that men with male pattern baldness still have the stem cells that are necessary for hair growth in their follicle roots, but the cells are dormant and can’t spur growth. It’s also been known that the hair follicle stem cells need signals from within the skin to grow hair. The question is, where ...…
Aderans Research Institute (ARI) is currently in the middle of Phase II trials of its much-anticipated, much-delayed new cellular hair regeneration technology. The company hopes to “encourage” follicular cells to reproduce themselves via a method ARI calls the Ji Gami™ process, resulting in a virtually unlimited number of hair-generating cellular units produced. During this process, ...…
