Promising Research for the Follicly Challenged

Scientists are doing amazing things these days with, um, bladders. According to the Associated Press, the British journal Lancet reports that tissue engineering has been used to reconstruct bladders which have been transplanted into seven patients, ages 4 to 19. Amazingly, the patients themselves donated the tissue that was then grown in a laboratory to create the bladders. The Lancet article hailed the work as a breakthrough that could hold exciting promise for someday regenerating ailing hearts and other organs.

That's great, and hopefully that research will be continued. I do think that there is another area where a smart medical entrepreneur could put this technology to good use. I'm talking about scalp tissue. I'm talking about male pattern baldness. I'm talking about a medical breakthrough that would be in high demand by millions of follicly impaired men. Sure, it's not research that's likely to result in a Nobel Prize for Medicine, but it would certainly be prized by comb-free men worldwide.


Let's help make this hat a thing of the past!