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
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