News since 2010 ? (Hair Multiplication & Stem Cells Treatment)
posted by cal, 25.02.2015, 13:33
IMO the current state of the HM race is worse than 5 years ago if anything.
In 2010 Aderans was still moving forward. They were the biggest player for the last decade. They're totally dead now. $150 million down the drain.
Follica isn't technically dead but we have lost most of the initial big hopes it generated. Dr. Cotsarelis is not a total freud in the research sense, but when it comes to near-term claims & leaking info he has basically proven to be full of crap. I wouldn't trust his word about his progress either way.
Replicel & Histogen are still around and they rank as the frontrunners in the minds of some. Those of us with longer memories recall when these were the second-rate outfits that we didn't hang a ton of hopes on. IMO their prospects haven't really improved so much as the better competition is just gone.
Dr. Gho continues his long crusade to sell commercial HM. But he is no closer to proving it on real live patients than he was 15 years ago. Every few years another batch of noobs fall for him again.
The only bright spot is the long term work on an unlimited supply of new follicles. Prospects for that still look good. We have seen some encouraging progress there in the last couple years. But it's not even in human trials yet so that is still probably 10-15 years away from the market at best.