Everything To Know About Hair Cloning News In 2020 – Part 2

More on the treatment called hair cloning. How does it help the person hide a receding hairline? Here are the developments made in the regeneration and stem cell research for thinning hair. 

Everything To Know About Hair Cloning News In 2020 – Part 2

The Continuation On Hair Cloning Treatment 

Probably less than what is seen with minoxidil, the men who undertook the treatment had meager hair regrowth. 

It happens to be they are still far removed from the moment RCH-01 becomes publicly available. We wouldn’t be surprised if the project never makes it to market at this point. 

Riken is a Japanese research institute making a lot of headlines as in 2016 they established a joint hair multiplication venture along with electronics giant Kyocera. Announcing they would start animal testing of their methods, was Riken and Kyocera together in 2018. Since then nothing new has been announced. The Riken/Kyocera original goal of bringing this technology to market by 2020 is not going to happen that is certain at this point. 

Arguably the main player in current hair multiplication research is Stemson Therapeutics in the North American market. At the Annual Meeting of the International Society for Stem Cell Research, the company founded just two years ago publicised the outline of the technology this past summer. 

Stemson hoped to start clinical trials in humans in early 2021 according to the indications given at that meeting. It is possible that to be overly optimistic, we will have to wait and see. 

Offered by the Hair Science Institute in its clinics in the Netherlands, UK, France, Indonesia, and Saudi Arabia, a fascinating technology already on the market is the so-called HASCI method. With the follicles being invasively removed from healthy donor areas and transplanted onto balding parts of the scalp, the method is similar to a standard hair transplant. Only part of the follicles is removed which makes the method unique. Leading follicles regenerating themselves and growing out new hairs in the donor area is the remaining part of the hair follicles and stem cells that aren’t removed. What is then the result? Drawing hairs from the same donor area, multiple transplants can be performed in the process leading to an increase in the total number of follicles on the head.

Under the direction of Dr. Christophe Guillermat, a similar method to HASCI transplantation is being developed by the CFS clinics in Barcelona and Madrid. With the aim to promote TissUse’s smart transplant technology in Japan, just last year, a partnership was announced between German biotech TissUse and the Japanese company by the name J. Hewitt. Supplying an unlimited number of new hair follicles in principle is TissUse’s transplant. 

Rapunzel Bioscience as well as Stemore includes other smaller players to keep an eye out for in the future. 

What is the Cost of Hair Cloning?

None of the non-invasive hair multiplication methods discussed here are commercially available at this point. It means that we have no idea of the pricing. 

It won’t be cheap when it hits the market for certain. More than a standard hair transplant you can get today, it will almost certainly be more expensive. A limited number of clinics will offer it, especially for the first few years. 

Whereas only for the rich, hair loss might indeed become optional in a few years. 

The HASCI method is the best proxy method now on the market. Combining elements of the classic hair transplant with stem cell regeneration, that has been available for some years now is what we have mentioned earlier. 

Here comes the cost of the treatment that is not flat. According to the extent of hair loss, the male head types are divided into 12 different categories. Costing around $6000 is typically 1000 grafts. 

It is unlikely that a full head of hair can be achieved in the most severe cases. 

From around $3,700 for scalps requiring fewer grafts to around $17,800 for the largest number of grafts, the rough prices for men are found to be ranging. Obviously varying with exchange rates and market conditions, these prices are based on treatment in the Netherlands or France. 

Until they can guarantee a 90 percent improvement rate, CFS Hair Transplant Clinic in Barcelona will not make its latest treatments available to the public. 

Currently between around $7,500 and $ 8000 is the cost of their most advanced transplant treatment. 

The Conclusion As To When Will Hair Cloning Become Available?

It is found that there are some techniques currently available that aren’t exactly hair cloning whereas they do work along similar lines as we mentioned above. We are speaking of the HASCI treatment currently being offered throughout Europe in particular. 

Such as those being developed by Replicel and Stemson Therapeutics, there is no way to know for sure when real hair cloning procedures will become available. 

Without any complex function, hair strands are seemingly very simple keratin structures. Compatible with theoretical biology is the hair multiplication. 

Hair multiplication has proven deceptively difficult in practice despite this as we have been an “a few years away” for quite a few years now. 

It has been found that for example, only a small number of germinative cells can be extracted with each shaft of the hair. Few such cells will survive after being reintroduced into the scalp making it very difficult for them to generate a new follicle adding to this. 

The difficulty in getting cells to keep on multiplying in vitro after they have been extracted from the patient is another fundamental problem. This has thrown up many unexpected difficulties though simple in theory. 

It has been proven difficult that getting the direction in which the new follicles are oriented correctly. It was found by researchers that including ingrown hairs, the new hairs grow out in all sorts of odd directions. 

Stemson has found it necessary to create a tiny 3-D biodegradable scaffold made with a special 3-D printer to direct the new hairs to grow out correctly to tackle this problem. 

Finally, The Thoughts To Be Summed Up

We have seen very promising press releases that raised excitement in the hair-loss community as it is perhaps understandable time and again followed by basically nothing. 

Like with Shiseido, results published March 2020 or other times, it falls far short of expectations what we do get. 

Until the first non-invasive hair multiplication technology comes to market, at this point a realistic estimate is that we will need to wait at least until 2025 to 2027. 

Over the long-term efficacy of cloning, there are still questions. Will the cloned hairs be able to live indefinitely once they have grown out for the first time in other words? To maintain the effects will there be a need for regular top-up treatments?

Only time can tell about it. 

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