verteporfin is okay when you either are already of old age and want to do a transplant and might need a little more grafts, young guys who can use and tolerate maintenance drugs like finasteride. however for young guys who have extensive baldness verteporfin won't be the solution at all, there is no guarantee that you will respond to the drug at all and you have to do a transplant first to find out. however since most people here are not candidates at all(transplants are really a meme at this point and done way to often) or cant tolerate maintenance drugs, this won't work. you need somewhat of a guarantee that you will grow enough hair back in the donor area where it allows you to potentially cover a NW7 area. this is the same requirement that you'd have for hair cloning with the difference that cloning does not when it goes wrong, deplete your donor area.
I think if someone will be successful in the hair cloning area it won't likely be tsuji because his method is apparently not very scaleable. so much so that other researchers like Junji Fukuda have commented on it being scientifically smart but not scaleable for large scale production.
I think if someone makes it its either stemson because they bet on high scalability from the start or Fukuda. Stemson recently hired someone who usually takes care of clinical trials so maybe the are getting ahead, however the history and there I will agree with Kiwi tells us that its often not a good idea to be optimistic about any of this stuff.
