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As a guy whose forehead is getting larger by the day, this is cool stuff.
Scientists have grown chicken embryos with teeth which may lead to a breakthrough against baldness.
The experiment suggests that a gene that causes teeth or hair growth, inactive in birds for 70 million years, could also be rekindled in humans in the future.
If scientists can identify and understand the gene which controls hair and teeth in humans, drugs could be developed to create hair follicles, combating baldness which effects 75 percent of men by the age of 40.
Hope the same gene doesn’t also trigger the regrowth of our pre-evolutionary tail.
Kinetic— as the bald person here, I’ll take the tail with the hair. And I’m sure the chicks would think my tail is cute.
Wait unil the first volunteer steps up, and he grows feathers instead of hair.
Curiously, and maybe someone can help me with this, I seem to recall many years ago (20 or so?) that someone succeeded in growing teeth in chickens, also with similar help from mice.
I recall a conversation with one of my brothers, who, summing up the results of the experiment, said, “They weren’t great teeth, but they were teeth.”
Anyone recall such a study?
HAIR?!?!?
I think after a certain age, I would be more concerned with growing more teeth instead of hair. Who wants to wear dentures and worry about cleaning that constantly? Better yet, why would I want to go through the trouble of having surgery to have fake teeth implanted if I could just grow a new set of them instead?
C’mon…let’s have the ability to grow more adult teeth. Activate some gene for it and if I grow a tail, I would happily go through the trouble of having my tail removed.
I’m sure all the companies out there that specialize in tail removal procedures are lobbying that this quickly gets to consumers.