The process of cloning hair is revolutionary and the results are very good. Millions of men and women who have lost or losing hair, will still be able to have a luxurious curls, because scientists will perfect hair cloning. The method of cloning is still in experimental stage. It is performed only in some European and American hospitals. Cultivation of hair root is done on the same principle as the cultivation of the skin.

Hair cloning roots

This procedure was developed by British company Intercytex, which is one of many who work on finding a cure for baldness that affects 40 percent of men above the 50. It may be necessary to use a thousands of injections to “plant” enough cells from which hair grows, but this technology will be faster and less invasive than the standard technique of hair transplantation.

How it works?

Part of the root which should be multiplied is taken, and then the root that is multiplied many times is transplanted to parts of the head where there is no hair. Active cell that is taken from patients hair root is forwarded to a laboratory for cloning. The surgeon orders ten identical one thousand hair roots. For 4-6 weeks the hair follicle is duplicated and ready for transplantation in bald spots. The problem of baldness is permanently resolved.

The significance of this method is that the procedure can be repeated numerous times to obtain a desired density of hair. The new method can help people affected by the fires and those who have lost their hair due to cancer therapy. This revolutionary method is called Follicular Implantation. Current test results show that at least two thirds of patients after six months has more hair, or four out of five patients, if it stimulates the scalp abrasion – removal of surface scratches or parts.

What Still Needs to be Done

There are a number of problems that still confront us in cloning hair. First, there is the need to determine the most appropriate follicular components to use  Next, these extracted cells must be successfully cultured outside the body. Third, a cell matrix might be needed to keep them properly aligned while they are growing. Finally, the cells must be successfully injected into the recipient scalp in a way that they will consistently induce hair to grow.

A major technical problem to cloning hair is that cells in culture begin to de-differentiate as they multiply and revert to acting like fibroblasts again, rather than hair. Finding the proper environment in which the cells can grow, so that they will be maintained in a differentiated (hair-like) state, is a major challenge to the researchers and appears to be the single greatest obstacle to this form of therapy coming to fruition. This is not unlike the problems in cloning entire organisms where the environment that the embryonic cells grow in is the key to their proper differentiation and survival.