Bald no more?

Is this the path to a baldness cure that men the world over have so desperately desired? It sounds promising for sure. Can't wait to see what a genetic treatment for baldness will cost.

clipped from news.bbc.co.uk It was thought hair follicles, once damaged, could never be replaced. But a University of Pennsylvania, US, team, writing in the journal Nature, says hair growth can actually be encouraged using a single gene. "Now this shows convincingly that under the conditions peculiar to the wound-healing environment, the highly complex hair follicle can be created anew from apparently unremarkable cells of the healing epidermis and its underlying dermis."