Did UCLA Just Cure Baldness?
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As someone that has also been bald since I was a teenager, I've also gotten used to it. I've accepted my fate and I'm fine with being bald.
But at the same time do you ever have those dreams where you have hair again and get super excited about it? Like straight up Jesus hair.
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100%
I’ve had dreams where my long locks were dramatically blowing in the wind, only to wake up and run my hands through my…well shit, that’s just my scalp.
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Through UCLA’s Technology Transfer Group, which transforms brilliant research into global market products, the scientists have co-founded a medical development company called Pelage Pharmaceuticals
In case you were curious how this publicly funded research is going to be turned into private profits.
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I can't find a gif of it, so I'd just like everyone to imagine that I posted that scene from the SpongeBob Movie where a worker sprays a can of hair onto King Neptune's eyes.
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Same. I feel like I’d look so weird with hair now.
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Sweet, so in thirty years I might be able to use this!
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Can’t speak to the effectiveness of the baldness cure, but the model in the stock photo has cured ED, I am sure.
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I don't think UCLA is going to produce retail products themselves.
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Saves money sure, but every other week? I have to buzz it twice a week to keep it short enough to not look terrible. That's enough effort that I'd rather apply a regular treatment.
Not like a daily "keep doing it or you lose all progress" treatment, but maybe like a "use it more or less daily and it'll grow back" treatment.
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Idiocracy was prophetic, just way too optimistic in the timeline.
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Cool, but if this does work maybe in 10 years it will be easily accessible ,
Iam already going bald right now, sure it would be nice to have an option down the line.One thing to keep in mind growing up in this age, a lot of things being developed or in the news now, simply won't be accessible or relevant within my lifetime.
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They could always make the research and processes public domain, so no one person can unilaterally profit.
But that's not what they did, and that's the problem.
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Research isn't free either.
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I just wish I had done something absurd like sport a bright pink mohawk at some point before going bald
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Of course not, which is why they're publicly funded. That's the issue. They're using public funds to make private profits.
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It's amazing you even have to explain something so obvious.
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So how should we make this available to people then?
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Finasteride effectively cured male pattern balding already. It's safe and effective, the only downside is that you need to keep taking it
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License and release it into the public domain: research, methods, processes, patents—the whole deal.
Privatizing medicine, even elective medicine, just ensures predation.
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People gotta start down the road of anti-capitalism somewhere, right?
