The biotechnology that transforms your cells so that your hair grows again

A Silicon Valley biotech startup called dNovo has discovered a way to use genetic engineering to combat the global problem of baldness.

Good news for some. The biologist Ernesto Luján has found, thanks to biotechnology, to solve a problem that many carry and that is becoming more and more common: baldness.

The pandemic and its aftermath after suffering from COVID-19, stress, depression or extreme worry lead to hair loss almost automatically. Despite all this, the most common cause in men is hormones.

With all this, the dNovo company intends remedy baldness related to stem cell loss associated with age, consists of transforming any cell into a capillary stem cell by modifying the patterns of the genes that are active in it.

The process begins with a few drops of blood, which it uses to make custom hair stem cells that can then be used to grow new hair.

The most relevant of all this is that they affirm that the cells can evade any immune system response that might cause them to reject, so success is assured.

“We are currently in the preclinical phase of development,” has said the founder Ernesto Lujan. “We have shown the results in laboratory mice and we are very excited about them.”

The researchers, as we can see, are optimistic. With more research, technology could one day cure “the underlying cause of hair loss”And with about half of all men suffering from male pattern baldness, some at a very young age, this is certainly an important step in the right direction.

According to many researchers, a new scientific trend is about to change the rules of the game and bring hope to many patients with various pathologies.

Cellular reprogramming encompasses actions that range from stopping the symptoms of aging to converting any tissue in our body into stem cells such as those extracted from the embryo. In this way more doors will be opened to people with fertility problems.

Stem cell therapy for certain diseases is not new, however, the opening that more and more companies have in this area is interesting.

In fact, some treatments have already been carried out successfully: among them the transplant of retinal cells to a blind man and the injection of beta cells to cure a man with type 1 diabetes.