Usc Stem Cell Scientists Developing A New Cure-all For Baldness

[NewUser]

The study was funded principally by the National Institutes of Health and published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Excellent news! Public power is what we need to fight baldness. It put men on the moon, and publicly funded science can end this disease for us, too. The NAAF funded Christiano's early work on the genetics of AA. And now this news about publicly funded research into Androgenetic Alopecia is just fantastic.

 

[Trichosan]

But then again, why should full heads want the government to use their tax money to research a cure for chrome domes? Ticklish political issue applicable to a lot of other problems also.

 

[Jonnyyy]

But then again, why should full heads want the government to use their tax money to research a cure for chrome domes? Ticklish political issue applicable to a lot of other problems also.

So they can keep their full heads forever! 90% of men have some sort of Androgenetic Alopecia before they die.

 

[NewUser]

But then again, why should full heads want the government to use their tax money to research a cure for chrome domes? Ticklish political issue applicable to a lot of other problems also.

Because there are full heads and baldies alike in private enterprise who will be salivating at thoughts of scooping up taxpayer funded research on the cheap. This is due to provisions in the Bayh-Dole Act of 1980 that allow exclusive rights to publicly funded research to be handed off to private enterprise. And taxpayers in the US spend at least $20 billion a year on basic medical research, the highest risk end of it. I don't agree with it, like Ralph Nader doesn't. This potential treatment and Tsuji's, in my opinion, should become regular medical procedures to benefit, for example, burn victims, patients who lose hair permanently while on drug regimens for other conditions, alopecia totalis etc. And any future procedure for the sake of "vanity" should not cost more than a hair transplant in my opinion. If it goes to the private sector, which is likely based on recent history, who knows what it would cost. Private for-profit companies exist for one reason, to turn a profit. A baldness treatment that works would be very lucrative for these academics working in publicly-funded universities allowed to sell their research to the highest bidders. So in effect, US taxpayers would pay twice for such a procedure with private enterprise picking the low hanging fruit for their direct benefit. It's called socializing the risk and privatizing the profits, and taxpayers are on the hook for the most expensive end of it.

 

[Oppenheimer]

That's one more than Homer Simpson.

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D'oh!