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Dr. Amanda Reynolds keeps a close eye on her husband’s hair. Which is quite easy, because it’s growing on her forearm. She and her husband are researchers at the University of Durham in the U.K. Along with Columbia University dermatologist Angela Christiano, they’ve developed a new hair transplant technique.
Dr. Christiano says you can’t transplant whole hair follicles from person to person. That’s because the immune system rejects them. But her team discovered you can transplant the follicle’s dermal sheath cells. These cells seem to be protected from the immune system.
Christiano:
“They implanted the cells into her arm and they were able to show that using just a few cells, that they were able to induce a brand new hair follicle to grow. And even more importantly, they were able to grow an actual hair from the newly made follicle.”