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Physiology & Medicine / Re: Can you grow stem cells from the hair of someone?
« on: 05/10/2017 12:05:09 »
Once the hair grows, the cells lose blood supply, and are all dead; you can extract DNA, but it is damaged.
You would need to have living cells (like from the hair root).
You would also need to treat them to revert to become stem cells that can be used for multiple purposes (not just producing hair).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced_pluripotent_stem_cell
You would need to have living cells (like from the hair root).
You would also need to treat them to revert to become stem cells that can be used for multiple purposes (not just producing hair).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced_pluripotent_stem_cell
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