I'd certainly appreciate again having long hair to run fingers through while thinking...
Next, let’s regenerate cochlear hair follicles!
I want the opposite. I'm tired of shaving my head + beard and generally just find those hairs annoying to deal with.
This isn’t just good news for the oldies. Gen Z in particular seems at first glance to be balding earlier and at higher rates. I had no idea what the heck “Norwood” meant until some young Zoomer guy clued me in.
Give me! I want. Take my money.
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With this and penis pills we’re right on track for Idiocracy.
On the one hand, this is obviously nice. I'm seeing more and more thinning as I age.
On the other -- of course they founded a company and got backing from Google. People get to work on what they want to, and they should, but I feel the same way about esteemed cell biologists starting hair startups as I do brilliant computer scientists working on ad placement algorithms. There's a bit of a shame in there somewhere.
The amount of charged snark that is all in one particular direction seen in this HN comments thread is really something. You don’t see attitude like this on other potential medical breakthroughs, like the tooth regrowth research that was recently on HN
A deep dive into why this is different sure would be an interesting article to read