You'd think a birthday party would be a source of joy and celebration, wouldn't you? Well, usually it is - and that's great. However, there's one thing about birthday parties (as I learnt to my cost this weekend) which isn't so great if you're (going) bald...everyone's got a camera.
Just when you thought it was safe to look at yourself in a mirror the "birthday party photographer" is the guy who just can't help coming up to you and showing you the photo he took when you weren't looking (or able to put that paper hat on quick enough). Damn these amateurs and their poorly-exposed-instantly-viewable-digital-pictures!
Well, thankfully my own birthday comes but once a year so I've got some time to recover my self esteem before the next one...
Monday, June 22, 2009
Thursday, June 18, 2009
Hair cloning down under
Great article over at The Age:
"Melbourne scientists are trying to cure baldness once and for all by using stem cells to grow a potentially endless supply of new hair.
If successful, cloning would overcome the shortcomings in existing hair-loss treatments.
Hair transplant surgery, for example, can redistribute hair over balding areas but does not create new hair. Drugs such as minoxidil and finasteride can stop balding in men, but can't reverse it and need to be taken indefinitely. Other options tend to involve fake hair, including "yeah, yeah" Shane Warne hair, which is a technically advanced hairpiece.
Scientists from St Vincent's Hospital and Melbourne University, headed by St Vincent's dermatology director Rod Sinclair, have extracted adult stem cells from hair follicles and are trying to coax them to spawn new hair follicles in a culture dish..."
More at http://www.theage.com.au/executive-style/style/yeah-yeah-its-cloned-hair-20090615-c7x4.html
"Melbourne scientists are trying to cure baldness once and for all by using stem cells to grow a potentially endless supply of new hair.
If successful, cloning would overcome the shortcomings in existing hair-loss treatments.
Hair transplant surgery, for example, can redistribute hair over balding areas but does not create new hair. Drugs such as minoxidil and finasteride can stop balding in men, but can't reverse it and need to be taken indefinitely. Other options tend to involve fake hair, including "yeah, yeah" Shane Warne hair, which is a technically advanced hairpiece.
Scientists from St Vincent's Hospital and Melbourne University, headed by St Vincent's dermatology director Rod Sinclair, have extracted adult stem cells from hair follicles and are trying to coax them to spawn new hair follicles in a culture dish..."
More at http://www.theage.com.au/executive-style/style/yeah-yeah-its-cloned-hair-20090615-c7x4.html
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