Guys,
The ICX quote in American money is from 19 to 90 thousand. I think its extremely high. They are just cutting out 120 or so hairs, isolating the dermal papilla cells..............................getting the dermal papilla cells to multiply in a petri dish over three weeks, and finally injecting them many times back in your scalp under anesthesia.
I imagine in the first couple of years of availablility they will keep the price up for the reason that weatlhy bald men are going to do this no matter what the cost. Bald millionaires would probably pay 200,000 to get their hair back, and ICX knows it. They'll be able to fund tons of other research projects in woundcare and aesthetic medicine from the early profits of HM.
After a year or two, when they've milked the rich...................the price will probably drop drammatically. Bosley CEO, John Ohanesian, thought HM would cost about 10-12K when THEY had it.
Bosley recently gave ICX 150,000 dollars, probably to conduct this test. ICX is cash strapped as of now. Its products are all in testing, so its a company without revenue as of now. They are broke. But when their skin-rejuvination, baldness treatments make it to market, they are going to be some very wealthy people.
Britan's MHRA (like our FDA) is going to regulate ICX-TRC (the hair cell product) like a drug, so they will have to go through three phases of trials in Britan.
There is a very good chance (because ICX has said as much) that they will set up a clinic and start offering TRC in some other country with much looser regulations (like Hungary, Finland, Portugal, or maybe somewhere in the Carribean).
I want to see good pics of outstanding growth over a good-sized area before I bite. I imagine someday this process will be very well refined and most men will be able to get a great amount of hair back. If they can grow 60-80 hairs on most of the one square centimeters on these men's scalps................................thats pretty good adult density, and would make it definitley worth it. If they can get 100 hairs per centimeter on all the men, you guys can start jumping for joy. Baldness will be over for humanity.
I think the results will be somewhere less than that however. This is complicated stuff. But the fact that THEY ARE GOING ahead with the trial is awesome news. Phoenixbio, a Japanese Company, has now also filed a cloning patent of the usage of cultured dermal papilla cells for impantation into scalps for the purpose of growing hair. This is not science fiction in other words. The researchers really believe in it, and some point in the future they really think baldness will be a choice.
I hope you young'un's realize how lucky you all are. You'll probably never even have signifigant recession with the treatments available and now this. We all owe Dr. Paul Kemp a beer when he's out for this (if it works well). In fact, that dude should never have to pay for his own lager again.
