This.
But don't get confused. We will have the cure in 10 to 20 years at best. He is right. To be cured means to have supress the desease and to get rid of it forever. It will only happens when scientists will discover how to get that sh*t done with genetics and understanding at 100% the big picture.
Even flu isn't cured,but you can get treated for itThis is what will happens for hair loss : we will have a godly treatment,but not a cure.
The reason why I think it might not be necessary to finger all of the genetic mutations for pattern baldness is that this MIT team of researchers think they can treat age-related hearing loss with a drug combination to re-grow sensorineural inner ear hair cells: Researchers discover a drug combination that can regenerate hair cells in the inner ear. Clinical trials are scheduled to occur within the next 15 months, yet the locations and number of genes suspected of causing or contributing to age-related and nerve damaged hearing loss are still mostly unknown.
They exposed cells from a mouse cochlea, grown in a lab dish, to molecules that stimulate the Wnt pathway, which makes the cells multiply rapidly. ... “We used small molecules to activate the supporting cells so they become proliferative and can generate hair cells,” Yin says. ... At the same time, to prevent the cells from differentiating too soon, the researchers also exposed the cells to molecules that activate another signaling pathway known as Notch. ...Once they had a large pool of immature progenitor cells (about 2,000-fold greater than any previously reported), the researchers added another set of molecules that provoked the cells to differentiate into mature hair cells.
They've restored up to 80% of hearing loss in mice engineered to lack the cochlea's sensorineural inner hair cells. And now they think they can re-grow outer hair cells as well.
It may be possible that not all genetic pinholes in the garden hose need be ID'd and patched in order to "water the garden" so to speak. I think it could be that activating hair stem cells with a couple of small molecule drugs may work, in effect, as an electrical jumper wire to positively affect hair growth regardless of the polygenic nature of hair loss.
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