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cactusplant7374yesterday at 1:05 PM5 repliesview on HN

Has there been any progress on cloning hair follicles? I don’t want to move the hair around. I simply want more hair.


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giarcyesterday at 1:19 PM

I saw a headline about this the other day. I couldn't find it but did come across this article. https://www.zmescience.com/medicine/genetic/lab-grown-hair-f...

No idea if ZME science is reputable at all.

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embedding-shapeyesterday at 1:13 PM

Could I donate mine to you? Been shaving my head for the last 20 years and I cannot wait for it to stop growing eventually... Seemingly it grows faster every year, as I need to continuously increase how often I trim it, I simply want less hair.

Edit: I love that someone downvoted me for offering my hair follicles to a random stranger, downvotes truly happen randomly here :)

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stavrosyesterday at 6:31 PM

They tried, and it sort of worked, but they couldn't stop the resulting cancer from getting cancer.

Traubenfuchsyesterday at 1:08 PM

Yes, yes it's coming. In 10 years.

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