Many queries come in from people wondering about hair cloning. Hair cloning would be the ultimate cure for hair loss and might not be too far away. Two top hair transplant surgeons and researchers, Gary Hitzig, M.D. and Jerry Cooley, M.D.., have become the first doctors to successfully clone hair using an FDA-approved healing powder called MatriStem® MicroMatrix™.
Using this powder they have been able to create a technique that multiplies the hair follicles that had previously stopped growing hair. This is an unbelievable breakthrough that many have been trying to accomplish.
MatriStem MicroMatrix, a product of regenerative medicine innovator, ACell, Inc., is a wound healing powder. It works by healing and promotes tissue growth. It has now been proven to help regenerate hair in the donor and recipient areas of hair transplant patients. While originally intended for diabetic ulcers, venous ulcers, traumatic wounds, second degree burns and trauma wounds, Hitzig and Cooley have found that it has many more uses, including cloning hair.
MatriStem changes the way wounds heal by triggering the formation of new blood vessels at the wound site, as well as providing a favourable substrate for host cell attachment, proliferation and differentiation. Hitzig and Cooley have also found that MatriStem causes the body to regenerate the original tissue meaning it will also regenerate the hair follicles.
The study was originally intended to see if the wound healing powder could correct scars from past hair transplants and re-grow hair in the donor area. Successful results in treating scars led to this fantastic hair cloning breakthrough.
Although this has potential, it is important to understand that this could be years away from being widely available. We will have a better idea of things when we see actual results. Their tests are only preliminary at this moment.
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