Biotechnology
Hello everyone, Welcome to another edition of Weekly Thoughts. I’ve been looking for some significant info to share with you all and today I came across just that. I expect this news to create quite a positive ripple in the hair enthusiast crowd. Let’s see what’s going on. HairClone Begins Dr. Bessam Farjo tweeted this…
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I’m very happy to be bringing you all an incredible exclusive on Follicle Thought. This week, David Weinstein, MD, PhD of RiverTown Therapeutics Inc. reached out to me to share some amazing photo results of his new compound RT1640. Below you will find photographs of a 60+ year old woman and a 42 year old…
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Follicle Thought recently had the opportunity to interview Howard Leonhardt of Leonhardt Ventures about his interesting new invention aimed at hair regeneration, HairCell. The Chief Medical Officer of Leonhardt Ventures, Dr. Leslie Miller, also provided some input for certain questions in the interview. Dr. Miller is also Director of the USF Heart Institute and has…
Read MoreHello everyone and welcome to a timely edition of Weekly Thoughts. The news involving Kyocera and Dr. Tsuji in this Weekly Thoughts is perhaps the best development I’ve heard of this year since the original buzz of the Brotzu lotion a few months back. This edition also features a new intriguing company that is developing…
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Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Weekly Thoughts. We’re now past the halfway point of the year, and quite frankly, I think a lot of people expected there to be more news regarding pivotal clinical trails for some of our favorite hair growth technologies. Nonetheless, the good news continues to pour in and…
Read MoreHello Everyone, Welcome to another edition of Weekly Thoughts. This edition features a presentation update on the JAK inhibitor therapies for hair growth and the announcement of a new startup/treatment for hair growth that is also claimed to restore hair pigment. Wowzas. Let’s take a look. Aclaris Therapeutics Jeffries Presentation Acalaris Therapeutics CEO Dr. Neal…
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Last summer I was happy to discover BiologicsMD, a new biotech startup coming out of Fayetteville, Arkansas. At that time, the company had just announced a new patent for the uses of bone growth, hair growth, and prevention of hair loss. You might imagine it was the latter two that caught my eye. It’s been…
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Hello Everybody, It’s good to be back with you. I’ve got some pretty neat tidbits to share in this installment of Weekly Thoughts. Enjoy and share. Allergan Releases Bimatoprost Results We’ve all been patiently waiting to see the results from Allergan’s phase 2 bimatoprost trial for scalp hair growth. Last week on November 4,…
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Angela Christiano is up to it again, and the online hair world is very thankful. It was just a little over a year ago when the internet was ablaze with the news that Dr. Angela Christiano and her colleagues were studying the pharmaceutical drug ruxolitinib in cases of alopecia areata. Like tofacitinib, ruxolitinib is a…
Read MoreCheers Everybody, It’s nice to be back here with you. Man, I do wish that hair regeneration news came more frequently, but I am happy to finally have some pertinent information to report upon. Wound Healing Company Interested in Hair Regeneration MicroCures, a biotech startup that is developing a siRNA technology for wound healing, has…
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