If human skin can be grafted onto the backs of mice...

[elguapo]

Why can't we just use those mice as hair factories?

I posed this question in another thread, but nobody chimed in. Just curious. I'd like to hear some opinions, if anybody cares to share.

Thanks.

-elcalvo

 

[Charly]

Isn't there immune system usually suppressed so the skin can heal on the mice?

 

[elguapo]

Either way, what I am saying is that if Cotsarelis is able to take a patch of human donor skin and put it on the backs of mice, and grow human hair, which I believe is the recent Follica discovery, then why can't we just continue to grow our hair on the backs of those mice?