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Hair Cloning: A New Hope



Finally! There might now be an ultimate solution for your hair loss problems. Hair cloning might be one of the best gifts from the scientific community to every hair loss sufferers out there.

Hair Cloning

If you have tried everything and are about to lose hope in regaining back your hair, let's rekindle back this light and look forward to something so promising and so permanent that no other previous hair recovery methods can match. Let us take a dive and see what the upcoming excitement is all about!




Your Prayers Might Be Answered

Remember Dolly the sheep? The first animal that was cloned via somatic cells (specialized cells that made up your organs). Hair cloning though is nothing as complicated as Dolly as it is not about duplicating an army of new hair follicles because hair follicles are small individual organs and it's very hard to be replicated as a whole outside the body. The procedure is more related to manipulating and stimulating certain special cells to trigger new hairs and promote existing hair growth. So let us understand how the whole process works.

For centuries baldness has always, ALWAYS been a stigma in the society and it's like a curse for men and women alike and in some cases it can create massive depression and emotional problems. Up until the present moment, there is not a single solid and permanent cure for common hair loss like Pattern Baldness, Alopecia Areata or other disease related hair conditions.

However, in recent years, scientists and researchers have progressed tremendously in understanding hair loss and are brewing multiple solutions for a real cure. Advanced technology and a better understanding of genetics have led to the discovery of DHT as a leading cause of Male Pattern Baldness and how different kinds of hair loss occur.

I am sure you have heard of available hair treatments options like

You can be sure that these options are indeed a very feasible choice for you to handle hair loss as they are effective in their own way. However, all of these hair loss treatments are NEVER A PERMANENT solution if you are facing genetic hair loss because they don't solve your problems once and for all.

You might have to continue treatments and taking medications for the rest of your life to keep your hair or visit your hair transplant surgeon after a few years to replenish additional hair loss. Moreover, these treatments are also not suitable or effective for immune related hair loss because most cases, the hair follicles are damaged or dead.Therefore, these are not the ultimate solution for hair loss but Hair Cloning is an entirely different cup of tea.




So What is Hair Cloning?

Hair cloning is still a relatively new technology that is stirring up the commotions recently. Concentrated research began around a decade ago and new developments have only been spotlighted recently. As the name says it, it's about a way on how you can actually promote and add new hair follicles to your head and if successful, you can have an unlimited supply of potential growing hair follicles.

It's not a process where new hair follicles are created and implanted to your hair like most people might have imagine but it actually involves extracting, cultivating and stimulating certain cells and specialized proteins like

  • Derma papilla
  • Derma sheath
  • Keratinocytes
  • Laminin-511

The whole process is a little complicated but overall very interesting to read. Therefore, I've divided the topic into a few chapters so that you can have a basic understanding on what it's all about. If you are interested in knowing what this technology can do for you, I strongly recommend taking some time and read the few sections below. The few chapters are

  • Understanding Your Hair Follicles
  • The Basis of Follicular Unit Implantation
  • Existing Problems in Hair Cloning
  • Where Hair Cloning is Today

Note: Please bear in mind at the time of writing I believe the information are up to date but I might periodically apply new updates and information as well as modifications to these pages because Hair Cloning has not yet become a completed technology. So do check back regularly or subscribe to our Survive It Newsletter!



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Understanding Your Hair Follicle

Before we begin, let us take a brief and fast look into your hair follicle and how different parts of it works and which part will play a crucial role in producing your new hair. It's important to know what to expect from hair cloning by looking at this step first.

Chapter 1 - An In-Depth Look into Your Hair Follicle



Follicular Cell Implantation

The Concept Behind It All

What are you expecting from this procedure? First, let's understand the basic idea on how it works. Hair cloning comes in many forms but it's now more commonly known as Follicular Cell Implantation. This process requires some salvaging of your hair follicle's base known as derma papilla combine with cell replication.

Chapter 2 - Know About Follicular Cell Implantation



Obstacles in Hair Cloning

Existing Problems in Hair Cloning

Nothing great is achieved in a single day. As with hair cloning, a technology that might bring the brightest hope to hair loss sufferers, there are yet a few major obstacles that needed to be overcome first before this technology can be finally be put into practice..

Chapter 3 - So what are the obstacles in hair cloning?



Hair Cloning Updates

Where Are We Today?

Results are great, trials are heading towards the next phase as we speak. Regardless, hair cloning is still not a 100% ready and proven method and more research and refining are needed to fine tune the flaws and technical issues. So for the time being, keep in touch and updated and see when you will finally get to enjoy the benefits of technology and invention.

Chapter 4 - How far have we come with this technology.




A Medical Breakthrough is Indeed Coming

With the completion of mapping of the human genome a few years back, medical science has been accelerating by leaps and bounds. So many things that we don't understand are answered in such a short time. Cures for diseases and ways to prevent them are increasing rapidly and hopefully, in a very near future, there will be a final cure to a problem so many men and women are waiting for.


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