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Gene Research Gives Hope of Reversing Baldness
Hair loss in humans might not be irreversible, suggest scientists who have helped create new hair cells on the skin of mice. It was thought hair follicles, once damaged, could never be replaced. A University of Pennsylvania team, writing in the journal Nature, say hair growth can actually be encouraged using a single gene.
Advanced hair ... yeah, yeah.
Exciting for some....
However, the next generation of this process could feasibly be new limbs or new organs ... sign me up.
If people were just as kind and fair to the beautiful as to the ugly, then I might agree with you.
But they are not.
Clearly medical research as a whole is irrelevant until we solve world hunger; spaceships, cars, and the internet are even more irrelevant. Progress is progress, how do you know that their research into this gene won't help cancer down the road?
If you are about to mod me down, keep in mind that this post was most likely sarcastic.
Insightful? My hiney!
Aren't scientists allowed to work on projects of lesser importance until all important problems are solved? If not, the ultimate consequence would be that we compile a list of all problems, sort them and don't start working on number 2 until we've solved number 1.
Secondly it is not as if nothing has been accomplished in cancer research. In the begining of the 20th century having cancer meant a certain death, these days you have a chance depending on the kind of cancer and how far it has progessed. Let's face it, cancer is hard to cure.
An finally you (and others in this thread) seem to think that baldness and erectily dysfunctions are minor problems. Having a problem like that can have a severe inpact on your chances of reproducing so I'd say they're no minor issues.
Oh I'm dreadfully sorry your mighty intellect is bored by the trivial concerns of millions. Fact is, many men are enormously bothered by going bald. It's something that affects their job prospects, their sex lives and much more. There are many, many more important things in the world of course, but then we have people like you to wrestle with infinitely more worthy thoughts.
In fact, next time you need to point out to us just how trivial our concerns are, do me a favour. Don't indulge us.
I started losing my hair at around age 16. I was a bit worried because obviously high-school students are mostly evil and I didn't want to give them yet another name to call me, but it wasn't really visible since I had a big bushy head of long, wavy, early-1990s-tortured-artist hair at the time.
Once school was over and the socially-active mutants I called my classmates ceased being a worry, I didn't have much of a problem with it. In fact, since I started buzzing it all off a few years ago, I find I really prefer how I look and feel. Additionally, people are occasionally inspired to rub my head, which is quite soothing.
Plus, I discovered the big secret that would put all these baldness researchers and hair clubs for men and wigmakers out of business in a hurry if every man realized it.. nobody cares. Bald men are all over the place, they've always been a part of society, and the world in general does not pay them any special attention for better or worse.
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