Stem Cells and Hair Replacement

Stem cells are primal, undifferentiated cells, which have the potential to produce any kind of cell in the body. Medical researchers believe stem cells have the potential to change the face of the treatment of human disease, by being used to repair specific tissues or to grow organs.

Adult stem cells are found in a variety of human tissues, and are undifferentiated cells that reproduce daily to provide certain specialized cells.

Adult stem cells have been discovered in hair follicles and some researchers predict that research on these follicle stem cells will eventually lead to successes in treating baldness through 'hair multiplication'.

This treatment is expected to work through taking stem cells from existing follicles, multiplying them in cultures, and implanting the new follicles into the scalp.

Later, stem cell treatments may be able to signal follicle stem cells to transmit chemical signals to nearby shrunken follicle cells, which will respond to these signals by regenerating and once again making healthy hair.