ICX: Cloning available in 2008 in England

[michael barry]

http://www.intercytex.com/icx/investors ... -06-29.pdf

Thats the ICX investor report for 2006. It describes the timeline for their woundcare stem-cell products, stem-cell burn tissue products, stem-cell diabetic sore products, stem-cell facial rejuvination products, and finally the stem-cell hair regeneration products.

ICX is claiming that ICX-TRC may be available as sometime in year 2008 (I suspect late in the year) in England. The product will first be offered for licensing rights to Bosley as per a previous agreement with them for sale here stateside. I still think it may be about 2010, and believe this to be a very optomistic assesment.

However, there need not be phase 3 trials for this product to be sold outside the United States, so it could be a go. Phase 2 trials are about to commence over there, and we should see new hair sprouting from trialees in about 3, 4, or 5 months. They will know if they have a real winner if alot of hair grows. They seem awfully confident about this (I imagine they have been testing on human skin grafted onto immuno deficient mice for some time now). Who knows? It seems like an exciting company in that their products are going to really help people and none of their stem cell derived therapies have caused any cancers, or other disorders so far.

 

[tpeter]

http://www.intercytex.com/icx/investors/rep/2006-06-29/2006-06-29.pdf

Thats the ICX investor report for 2006. It describes the timeline for their woundcare stem-cell products, stem-cell burn tissue products, stem-cell diabetic sore products, stem-cell facial rejuvination products, and finally the stem-cell hair regeneration products.

ICX is claiming that ICX-TRC may be available as sometime in year 2008 (I suspect late in the year) in England. The product will first be offered for licensing rights to Bosley as per a previous agreement with them for sale here stateside. I still think it may be about 2010, and believe this to be a very optomistic assesment.

However, there need not be phase 3 trials for this product to be sold outside the United States, so it could be a go. Phase 2 trials are about to commence over there, and we should see new hair sprouting from trialees in about 3, 4, or 5 months. They will know if they have a real winner if alot of hair grows. They seem awfully confident about this (I imagine they have been testing on human skin grafted onto immuno deficient mice for some time now). Who knows? It seems like an exciting company in that their products are going to really help people and none of their stem cell derived therapies have caused any cancers, or other disorders so far.

Didnt read it all but anything that has to do with cloning is a good thing.

Hopefully by the time i need another hair transplant, something with be available.

 

[Chadman]

This is starting to look really good. If that's true I'll be planning a flight to England in early '09! :lol:

 

[pete24]

guys, forgive my ignorance,

but with this cloning thing..presumeably you have a single hair follicle cloned into thousands of others in a lab.

After this, the cloned hairs still need implanting though in the traditional way.? So the same hair transplant surgeons will do these new techniques?
and the hairs will grow in the same way.

sounds like it the answer and a real "cure".

 

[biff]

guys, forgive my ignorance,

but with this cloning thing..presumeably you have a single hair follicle cloned into thousands of others in a lab.

After this, the cloned hairs still need implanting though in the traditional way.? So the same hair transplant surgeons will do these new techniques?
and the hairs will grow in the same way.

sounds like it the answer and a real "cure".

They don't actually implant hairs. They inject cells capable of producing new hairs. This is taken from their website:

A small sample of hair follicles is taken from the patient during a simple 30 minute operation carried out under local anaesthetic at a hair or skin clinic. The clinic will send the biopsy to Intercytex’ manufacturing facility where the hair-inductive dermal papilla cells are dissociated from the rest of the follicle. These cells are cultured and expanded in proprietary media over three weeks and subsequently returned to the clinic in a sterile suspension. Using a specialised delivery system, the hair-inductive dermal papilla cells are microinjected intradermally into the patient’s scalp. The treatment is performed under local anaesthetic and comprises a single procedure of superficial injections, each injection delivering a minute volume of media containing dermal papilla cells capable of inducing new hair growth. Following the procedure, new hair growth should become evident after approximately three months.

 

[pete24]

guys, forgive my ignorance,

but with this cloning thing..presumeably you have a single hair follicle cloned into thousands of others in a lab.

After this, the cloned hairs still need implanting though in the traditional way.? So the same hair transplant surgeons will do these new techniques?
and the hairs will grow in the same way.

sounds like it the answer and a real "cure".

They don't actually implant hairs. They inject cells capable of producing new hairs. This is taken from their website:

A small sample of hair follicles is taken from the patient during a simple 30 minute operation carried out under local anaesthetic at a hair or skin clinic. The clinic will send the biopsy to Intercytex’ manufacturing facility where the hair-inductive dermal papilla cells are dissociated from the rest of the follicle. These cells are cultured and expanded in proprietary media over three weeks and subsequently returned to the clinic in a sterile suspension. Using a specialised delivery system, the hair-inductive dermal papilla cells are microinjected intradermally into the patient’s scalp. The treatment is performed under local anaesthetic and comprises a single procedure of superficial injections, each injection delivering a minute volume of media containing dermal papilla cells capable of inducing new hair growth. Following the procedure, new hair growth should become evident after approximately three months.

holy sh*t...that sounds amazing....

I dont care how much it costs i am getting it done.

Thanks for the info.