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Through UCLA’s Technology Transfer Group, which transforms brilliant research into global market products, the scientists have co-founded a medical development company called Pelage Pharmaceuticals
In case you were curious how this publicly funded research is going to be turned into private profits.
I don't think UCLA is going to produce retail products themselves.
They could always make the research and processes public domain, so no one person can unilaterally profit.
But that's not what they did, and that's the problem.
Research isn't free either.
Of course not, which is why they're publicly funded. That's the issue. They're using public funds to make private profits.
It's amazing you even have to explain something so obvious.
People gotta start down the road of anti-capitalism somewhere, right?
So how should we make this available to people then?
License and release it into the public domain: research, methods, processes, patents—the whole deal.
Privatizing medicine, even elective medicine, just ensures predation.
I'm not following. Making the results public domain doesn't prohibit private companies from manufacturing for profit.
No, you got it. It's not about prohibiting profit, it's about preventing the exclusive ability to profit.
Think of generic medicines (in the US) versus brand equivalents and how vast their cost difference is.
Hair loss is caused by a multitude of factors, including aging, stress, hormonal imbalances and bad genetics.
“Bad” genetics?! Damn, that’s a little fucking judgmental for what is ultimately just a cosmetic issue.
PUT ON THE WIG DEGENERATE
Better watch out, when the king of the US government is done with all the queers and chronically ill the baldies are next.
I think people forget that not all populations benifit from more hair
When my head is freezing and I don’t have a hat handy I’m pretty sure that’s not a cosmetic issue.
It’s not just cosmetic. Hair keeps the heat from escaping the head so quickly and, more importantly, it helps keep the head from getting sunburned and skin cancer.
If the topic is undesired head hair loss, "bad" appropriately describes the genes that may contribute to that. The discussion is limited by the context to avoiding hair loss, it isn't a universal conversation on cosmetics
I started losing my hair when I was a teenager, so I’ve been bald for most of my life. I’ve been shaving my head for decades because it’s the only way my head and face don’t look absurd. I’m totally used to it, and long ago accepted that I’d never have hair on my head again.
But I’d be lying if I said I didn’t want my hair back.
If this turns out to be legit and works on most people, there could be a worldwide explosion of self-esteem in adults.
As someone that has also been bald since I was a teenager, I've also gotten used to it. I've accepted my fate and I'm fine with being bald.
But at the same time do you ever have those dreams where you have hair again and get super excited about it? Like straight up Jesus hair.
100%
I’ve had dreams where my long locks were dramatically blowing in the wind, only to wake up and run my hands through my…well shit, that’s just my scalp.
I just wish I had done something absurd like sport a bright pink mohawk at some point before going bald 😂
Answer: kind of, as long you keep applying the substance you will regrow all the hair that you have lost and maintain it
That's the problem I've always had with baldness remedies. Shaving my head every other week takes less effort and saves money. Plus I've been bald since highschool so I'm kinda used to it at this point.
Saves money sure, but every other week? I have to buzz it twice a week to keep it short enough to not look terrible. That's enough effort that I'd rather apply a regular treatment.
Not like a daily "keep doing it or you lose all progress" treatment, but maybe like a "use it more or less daily and it'll grow back" treatment.
So rogain or whatever it's called
But it actually works
rogain also works, don't tell me you believe in pfs?
...on specific areas and doesn't regrow lost hair to the same density or lustre, but yeah.. it works.
Hair loss remedies are always criticized on the grounds that you need to continue using them to continue seeing the benefits.
I don’t know why this complaint surfaces for hair loss medications in particular, when a lot of things are like this. Insulin. Depression drugs. All supplements. Etc.
No
Is Betteridges Law dead?
They didn't and this doesn't work as intended. They did however create a company to cash in on desperate people.
I'm bald and started shaving my head as soon as I noticed it was thinning (19 yrs old). I like the lack of maintenance and I think I look good with a bald head. \o/
Wouldn't change it tbh.
Lack of maintenance? Don't you have to shave your head regularly?
Sure, but no need for combs, hair product, trips to the barber... I shave my face in the shower, and just keep going.
Cool, but if this does work maybe in 10 years it will be easily accessible , Iam already going bald right now, sure it would be nice to have an option down the line.
One thing to keep in mind growing up in this age, a lot of things being developed or in the news now, simply won't be accessible or relevant within my lifetime.
Dude, if this upsets you, consider that there are promising signs we may be able to significantly slow or even reverse aging itself within the next 50 years.
This means that it will have taken humanity 10 or 20 thousand generations, since our origins, to achieve immortality. But you, me, and everyone reading this is going to miss out on that by about 2.
Idiocracy was prophetic, just way too optimistic in the timeline.
Finasteride effectively cured male pattern balding already. It's safe and effective, the only downside is that you need to keep taking it
Thought this said blindness for a second. Was confused by the comments
Sweet, so in thirty years I might be able to use this!
Can’t speak to the effectiveness of the baldness cure, but the model in the stock photo has cured ED, I am sure.
