The article is from January 28 of this year.........thats less than three months. Pretty new if you ask me...
The important thing from the article I'd like to impart is that Dr. Paul Kemp, who grew 66 hairs in a penny-sized portion of his balding scalp, is one of the Doctors involved in research in a Phase One trial designed to test SAFETY. Lots of transplant docs have been trying to put forth a carcinoma (cancer) scare against Hair Multiplication or follicular neo-genesis.........but this Doctor tested in on HIMSELF. Dont think he woulda done that if he was worried about cancer, do you?
By the way, Ive heard a Hairtransplant Doctor named Rassman has blogged on his site about "dead animals" in cloning tests.......
Well, over a decade ago, some scientist tried transplanting hair onto a mouse back, all over the mouse back in fact. The little critters immune system of course tried to reject all the human follicles (just like your immune system would try to reject mouse fur), but as it covered so much of this creatures body mass, and human hairs are so much bigger than mouse fur........the immune response killed the little creature. That wont happen when a subject, animal or human, is using its OWN cells with its OWN DNA code.
Anderans is now testing HUMAN HM hairs on human skin grafted onto the backs of immuno-deficient mice (mice with weak immune systems/no immune systems) and they are indeed GROWING hair according to Washenik. News on the cloning front looks very good. But three FDA phase tests have to be passed for Anderans. One has been passed with Intercytex. After passing the three phases, there is a ten month FDA review before products are released.........this will put us in 09-10'. Im betting 10-11'. Consistency is getting better, but does remain an issue. When/if they pass phase 2, most of you would be right to feel confident however. Most drugs/treatments that pass this phase eventually make it to market.