Scientists make new hair follicles in humans without using drugs.
Scientists make new hair follicles in humans without using drugs.
Kev's comments Scientists make new hair follicles in humans without using drugs. 4 November 1999 Scientists transplanted scalp cells from one person to another and, for the first time ever, grew new hair on a human without the use of drugs. The approach could someday enable just about any head to sprout hair, researchers said. The researchers, led by biologist Colin Jahoda at Durham University, in Britain, took cells at the bottom of hair follicles from Jahoda's own scalp and from a colleague's. These cells from the so called dermal papilla were then transplanted into the forearm of Jahoda's wife, Amanda Reynolds.