February 25, 2008
Bringing Order to Hair Disorder
Good news for fellow baldies:
“‘It’s possible you could develop drugs to stimulate hair growth by activating this gene [P2RY5], or you could also block its activity as a method for hair removal,’ said Angela Christiano, a professor of dermatology and genetics at Columbia University Medical Center in New York, in a telephone interview today. About 25 percent of men begin balding by age 30, and by age 60 two-thirds of them are completely or partially bald, according to the NIH.”
Now they just need to find the genes responsible for fat and ugly, and I’ll be golden. :)
Cat: | Time: 11:51 am (utc+8)
February 26th, 2008 at 1:01 pm
Seeing as it is aimed at “Two rare diseases that cause hair loss,” I doubt anything will come of it to help us poor bald ones suffering from male pattern baldness.
February 26th, 2008 at 2:17 pm
biff: The key was identifying the gene… have hope old bald top! :)
February 27th, 2008 at 10:42 am
I was in that racket for a while, namely hair growth and replacement. One of the early people I knew at NYU made so much money doing “plants” that he spent every weekend at his pad in London. I also knew Larry Bosley in CA before he went into franchised “plant” factories.
The key, as in street drugs and booze and tobacco dealing, and stock IPOs, is to identify a “must have” product and relentlessly market and expand it. And don’t forget to watch for the ideal exit.
February 27th, 2008 at 10:51 am
Tom D: You’d have to be a pretty desperate guy to want hair implants… strikes me as a little pathetic and the guys I know who have had it done uniformly look awful.
February 27th, 2008 at 10:52 am
Exactly. Desperation was why it was so profitable.
February 27th, 2008 at 10:55 am
Things like that turned me off from medicine. So I decided to go into an honorable profession like investing…:))))))
February 27th, 2008 at 10:59 am
But then I found that gold and silver hawkers were the worst crooks of all when they suddenly became deflationists in the late 1990’s and blamed the obvious bear market in all commodities, but especially gold and silver, on “manipulators”.