Every day, Anicet Mbida makes us discover an innovation that could well change the way we consume. This Friday, hope for the bald. For the first time, human skin with its hair was reconstituted in the laboratory.
A few days ago, doctor Jimmy Mohamed gave a little hope to all those who have white hair. This Friday morning, Anicet Mbida gives hope to the bald. We managed to recreate skin with hair in the laboratory.
We already knew how to create skin, but this is the first time that we have been able to do it with hair, hair follicles. And for bald people, this means that we will finally have follicles in unlimited quantities.
Today, when we make implants, we are forced to take samples from the few remaining hairs (often at the nape of the neck), and then graft them elsewhere. For four or five years, everything is fine, we no longer see baldness. Except that the hair can continue to fall out. After ten years, you see holes where you took them.
By relying on follicles cultivated in the laboratory, we no longer touch the remaining hair. We just add to it. So we can have implants and keep the neck very long.
Does that mean we can have any type of hair transplanted?
Yes, it is the advantage and the disadvantage. Since these are not its own follicles, it will not be exactly the same hair. This means that to have a homogeneous hair, it will be necessary to cultivate a type of hair very close to his. What can become a puzzle for the labs.
Researchers at Boston Children's Hospital have just developed this technique. We have known how to cultivate skin for a long time (even if, until now, it had no hair). It's been as long as we know how to make implants. So it's a technique that could happen quickly enough to treat baldness.