Hair Loss Will be Cured Within Ten Years

Will hair loss be cured within ten years

  • Yes

    Votes: 76 40.6%
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    Votes: 111 59.4%

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Keratinpro

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Does anybody have any guesses as to what is taking Cassiopea so long to have their Breezula go into phase III? I understand COVID slowed everything down last year but what is going on lol? I believe it will be approved much quicker because the trial will only be 6 months + Winlevi has been FDA approved which could potentially speed up the approval of Breezula because it contains the same active ingredient (clascoterone).
 

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It is funny how ppl talk about humans traveling in deep space or how we will fully understand the brain soon or how we will transfer our minds to the virtual world. Then you stop for a second and remember that we are struggling to put some freaking hairs in a bald head.

It is a humbling thought.
 

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It is funny how ppl talk about humans traveling in deep space or how we will fully understand the brain soon or how we will transfer our minds to the virtual world. Then you stop for a second and remember that we are struggling to put some freaking hairs in a bald head.

It is a humbling thought.
mind transfer to computer will be shitty, who needs to live in virtual world, transfer to perfect bilogical body it would be somethnig
 

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mind transfer to computer will be shitty, who needs to live in virtual world, transfer to perfect bilogical body it would be somethnig
It can't be done. You can't "transfer" your mind to a machine. You would actually be creating a copy of yourself in the virtual world since there is no reason for your biological body to die in the process. There would be two versions of yourself or, in the worst scenario, the biological body dies.

Science deals with the natural world. The mind and soul ppl how ppl like to think are outside the scope of science.

But that would be a useful way to collect not just information, but knowledge, wisdow. We could have robotics workers/slaves that think like humans.
 

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It can't be done. You can't "transfer" your mind to a machine. You would actually be creating a copy of yourself in the virtual world since there is no reason for your biological body to die in the process. There would be two versions of yourself or, in the worst scenario, the biological body dies.

Science deals with the natural world. The mind and soul ppl how ppl like to think are outside the scope of science.

But that would be a useful way to collect not just information, but knowledge, wisdow. We could have robotics workers/slaves that think like humans.
Alright settle down lol, of course we can transfer our minds between the brain and digital interfaces. The brain is just one large machine that fires off electrical pulses to create thought/action. Once the brain is fully mapped and can communicate through a linker there is nothing stopping the flow of conscious through machines.

I don't even understand why this is being talked about.
 

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Soon after that your father got minoxidil and finasteride which were a big deal. Another leap of that proportion would pretty much be a cure.
You are comparing apples to oranges. The science and technology in the 1970s was garbage compared to what it is now in 2021, I don't think you can refute that.
A cure would be a remedy you take just once and voila, baldness gone.
Big pharma wouldn't be happy though, too much money at stake if a cure was found.
yea ble ble bla bla, and your father had stemson and tsuji in 5 years:p
First read about stem cell treatments when lurking on hairloss boards 10 years ago...
 

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A cure would be a remedy you take just once and voila, baldness gone.
Big pharma wouldn't be happy though, too much money at stake if a cure was found.

First read about stem cell treatments when lurking on hairloss boards 10 years ago...
Yes, big pharma is preventing a cure because there's no money in it :rolleyes: It has nothing to do with baldness being extremely complex and polygenic. You are asking way too much with your definition of a cure. Most reasonable people would consider a cure as something that reverses baldness completely.
 

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A cure would be a remedy you take just once and voila, baldness gone.
Big pharma wouldn't be happy though, too much money at stake if a cure was found.

First read about stem cell treatments when lurking on hairloss boards 10 years ago...
Big pharma isn't the one doing the research on these things, it's university labs. If hairloss could have be cured easily then it would have done so through this network. Sure, big pharma could have put money into research and accelerate it, but they really have no reason to do so.

This narrative that "too much money" is at stake or involved in hairloss really needs to end. There really is no money in hairloss, not now, not if better treatment was found, not even if a cure was found. The 500 million of sales from propecia for Merck is 1% of their revenue and they've been sued a thousand times over it. The reason it's all small companies trying to develop these therapies is because it's low hanging fruit to small revenues (from a biotech perspective) that will accelerate their companies.

When the Hope Med mAb comes out and it costs low-to-mid 5 figures for a yearly dose, average people won't use it, just like average people don't get hair transplants unless they can pay 5k for them in Turkey.
 
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"I'm not gonna spend thousands of dollars just to thicken up my hair." <-- said no woman with thinnng hair, ever.
 

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Big pharma isn't the one doing the research on these things, it's university labs. If hairloss could have be cured easily then it would have done so through this network. Sure, big pharma could have put money into research and accelerate it, but they really have no reason to do so.

This narrative that "too much money" is at stake or involved in hairloss really needs to end. There really is no money in hairloss, not now, not if better treatment was found, not even if a cure was found. The 500 million of sales from propecia for Merck is 1% of their revenue and they've been sued a thousand times over it. The reason it's all small companies trying to develop these therapies is because it's low hanging fruit to small revenues (from a biotech perspective) that will accelerate their companies.

When the Hope Med mAb comes out and it costs low-to-mid 5 figures for a yearly dose, average people won't use it, just like average people don't get hair transplants unless they can pay 5k for them in Turkey.

its simply pure non-sense.

those "big pharma" specialize in different areas, and since no one have had the key to come up with a better treatment than minoxidil or finasteride, then no one have something to compete with, sure there are copy-drugs out there doing their own take on it. But you earn more if you have the patent behind you. And give you as a company a competitive edge.

If a business doesn't take obvious "low hanging fruit" (which means its takes low effort to make a big impact) then they aren't good at their business.

And yes "one time treatments" is something that makes money of, just like vaccines to mention something relevant to this day. Also why R&D is happening within genetic editing, or more famously "designer babies", also a one time treatment, where the goal is to make a perfectly healthy human.
 

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Alright settle down lol, of course we can transfer our minds between the brain and digital interfaces. The brain is just one large machine that fires off electrical pulses to create thought/action. Once the brain is fully mapped and can communicate through a linker there is nothing stopping the flow of conscious through machines.

I don't even understand why this is being talked about.
I just used this subject as an example above and I ended up talking too much about it. Hehe But you didn't understand my comment... You would be able to "transfer" your consciousness, but your biological body would still live normally.

Bam! Relax, this will take longer than hair cloning.

A cure would be a remedy you take just once and voila, baldness gone.
Big pharma wouldn't be happy though, too much money at stake if a cure was found.

First read about stem cell treatments when lurking on hairloss boards 10 years ago...
Yeah... You are asking too much. I doubt that baldness will ever be cured with a pill. For us the cure will be hair cloning. Maybe future generations will make use of genetic therapy.
 

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its simply pure non-sense.

those "big pharma" specialize in different areas, and since no one have had the key to come up with a better treatment than minoxidil or finasteride, then no one have something to compete with, sure there are copy-drugs out there doing their own take on it. But you earn more if you have the patent behind you. And give you as a company a competitive edge.

If a business doesn't take obvious "low hanging fruit" (which means its takes low effort to make a big impact) then they aren't good at their business.

And yes "one time treatments" is something that makes money of, just like vaccines to mention something relevant to this day. Also why R&D is happening within genetic editing, or more famously "designer babies", also a one time treatment, where the goal is to make a perfectly healthy human.
Do you know how much those one time genetic treatments cost? Most are well into the 7 figures right now. The recurring RNA therapies are several hundred thousand per year, and people will be taking those for life or until better is available. In order to beat finasteride or minoxidil you'd have to have a product that was miles better, and the price tag associated with it would have to have certain profit incentives that justified the R&D. Why do you think Bayer, a 75 billion dollar company, licensed it's most promising Androgenetic Alopecia treatment out to a biotech start up instead of just rushing it into clinical trials themselves years ago? Because it's not going to be a very profitable platform even if successful, and they know that.

You're whining about things that you don't understand the economics of. There is no money in hairloss, and that's why there has been no progress.
 
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Do you know how much those one time genetic treatments cost? Most are well into the 7 figures right now. The recurring RNA therapies are several hundred thousand per year, and people will be taking those for life or until better is available. In order to beat finasteride or minoxidil you'd have to have a product that was miles better, and the price tag associated with it would have to have certain profit incentives that justified the R&D. Why do you think Bayer, a 75 billion dollar company, licensed it's most promising Androgenetic Alopecia treatment out to a biotech start up instead of just rushing it into clinical trials themselves years ago? Because it's not going to be a very profitable platform even if successful, and they know that.

You're whining about things that you don't understand the economics of. There is no money in hairloss, and that's why there has been no progress.
Many companies license out their production. nothing new about that.

Many companies run very few production runs at their "R&D facilities" and then license the production out when its stable. Its normal business procedure. Its extremely rare that a company does it all them self.

Same with R&D, its normal its a collaborative effort. Again nothing new about that.

Tsuji is one of those, Replicel does the same. many does this. Even within the car industry its quite normal to buy into R&D from their suppliers.

I would bet its rather difficult to find a company that DOES NOT license out anything.
 

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Many companies license out their production. nothing new about that.

Many companies run very few production runs at their "R&D facilities" and then license the production out when its stable. Its normal business procedure. Its extremely rare that a company does it all them self.

Same with R&D, its normal its a collaborative effort. Again nothing new about that.

Tsuji is one of those, Replicel does the same. many does this. Even within the car industry its quite normal to buy into R&D from their suppliers.

I would bet its rather difficult to find a company that DOES NOT license out anything.
No one said it was a new thing, but this isn't R&D like you are describing. This is a completed pre-clinical program with phase 1 data already available.

If this were a home run profitability wise then Bayer would be holding universal rights and developing it in-house. They clearly see massive potential risk or a lack of profitability to drag it past phase 1 and then license it out.
 
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There is no money in hairloss, and that's why there has been no progress.

If nobody has ever made much profit off a life-extension drug before, does that prove there is no money in life extension?

The baldness community is so caught up in the minutiae of our existing options that we have no normal perspective. No existing hair loss treatment has ever been worth half a sh*t.

The concept of "pay money to get your lost hair back" has never been commercially tested. "Pay money to get sexual side effects and slow down the rate of worsening hair loss" is not a representative stand-in for that. It just isn't.
 

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If nobody has ever made much profit off a life-extension drug before, does that prove there is no money in life extension?

The baldness community is so caught up in the minutiae of our existing options that we have no normal perspective. No existing hair loss treatment has ever been worth half a sh*t.

The concept of "pay money to get your lost hair back" has never been commercially tested. "Pay money to get sexual side effects and slow down the rate of worsening hair loss" is not a representative stand-in for that. It just isn't.
No no, I agree. There is money in a curative treatment, but this means you are asking these companies to sink hundreds of millions to research and development for a treatment that has to be perfect or it's financially useless. I'm simply saying that there is no money in incremental treatments (ie a bit better than finasteride or minoxidil), and that's why we have nothing new in 20+ years.
 

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No one said it was a new thing, but this isn't R&D like you are describing. This is a completed pre-clinical program with phase 1 data already available.

If this were a home run profitability wise then Bayer would be holding universal rights and developing it in-house. They clearly see massive potential risk or a lack of profitability to drag it past phase 1 and then license it out.
You do understand that Bayer still owns it?

That is why they can license it out to other with ressource they might not have them self.

So Bayer isn't seeing a loss of profitability just because they license it out.

To take one of the worlds biggest players within diabetes drugs is Novo Nordisk, they still work with other companies and universities, is that also a sign of lack of profitability?
 
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