Losing one's hair can happen at any age; however, as one grows older theodds are greatly increased.  There are men who may like the fact that theyhave little to no hair; but women and many men who suffer from thinning hairloss may long for the days when they had nice thick locks that they can runtheir fingers through.  They might have tried all the hair treatmentproducts available on the market and found them to be ineffective and expensive. But hold on Boomers; as on the horizon appears to be a successful new hair losssolution!A team of British researchers, located in Manchester, have worked tirelessly onimproving the technique of hair cloning ? officially called ?follicular cellimplantation.?  The procedure involves taking any remaining strands ofhair on a person's head and cloning it in a laboratory.  This basicallymeans that they take a hair sample and produce at least 100 hairs.  Theyare multiplied in a Petri dish and then transplanted onto a bald spot on theperson's head.  They have tested their methods on humans and found theresults inspiring.  The research results are so encouraging that it hasled the British government to provide financial support to the tune of 1.9 billionpounds!

The scientists presented their latest findings (Phase II of their trials) ata conference in Romein 2008.    They found that the method used worked on 66 percentof the test subjects after a period of six months and 80 percent if theystimulated their scalps as a way of encouraging their hair to grow.

This exciting news has researchers in the USA,Italy and Japan alsolooking at the possibilities of hair cloning.  Each country is vying to bethe first to bring this technique to the bald or balding person.  Thereason:  The country that does stands to make a whole lot of money fromall the people who will be lined up to undergo the procedure and regain theiryouthful looks.

The British team says it expects to have the procedure available to themasses within five years.  They are convinced that they are far ahead ofthe other countries and will win the race.  Theirs is seen as being fasterthan and not as invasive as hair transplant procedures of today.  Theirstudy is 48 weeks long and they will share the full details of the results in2009.

Baby Boomers who would like to regain their hair of the past should startsaving for what is expected to be a very expensive procedure.  Ah! The price we are willing to pay for keeping up our appearances?..

We at BoomerYearbook.com are very excited at the prospect of having aneffective option to baldness or thinning hair, how about you?  Share withus.

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