Is cloning just like a hair transplant?

[eric2117]

with cloning do you have to keep coming back as you become more bald? not sure how that works? i know your taking hair cells and planting them but isnt this just like a hair transplant?

 

[Nick4441]

Intercytex explanation - - - - 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

 

[pomski]

Would the new hair be the same as the hair it's replacing as though it had reawakened hair growth in that area or would it look like transplanted hair i.e. sh*t?

 

[Far Too Young]

Pomski, it would be difficult to say anything definitive about that as the procedure and its results are still indefinite. I've read that surgical alternatives will not become obsolete though, as more exacted areas like the hairline will need more precise restoration than HM injections may ever be able to offer.