Accidental Find May Lead To a Cure For Baldness

kkleiner writes "Science is full of stories in which great discoveries are made by accident: the discovery of radiation, the discovery of the universe's shape through x-ray detection, and now perhaps the cure for hair loss. At the time they returned to the cages to find that their bald mice had miraculously grown their hair back, the scientists at UCLA had no intention of curing baldness. Originally, theirs was in fact a study aimed at reducing the harmful affects of chronic stress. The unanticipated side effect of their treatment could prove a boon to balding men and women everywhere, not to mention to the drug company that delivers the cure to them."

Comments

Re:Uh, don't we maybe NEED that hormone?

[Wyatt Earp]

Not to mention athletes, body builders, and people like myself who get to adjust male hormones, if you do it with the right chemicals in the right doses, farking around with hormones isn't a problem.

Before I got my current treatment regimen going, I was at 39 ng/dl when normal total testosterone levels range from 300 - 1000 ng/dl

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypogonadism

Re:Socialists find the answers that Capitalists ca

[damburger]

Playing devils advocate, public funded research could be consider an integral part of a capitalist society, and something capitalists support?