Scientists are looking into 3D Printing real hair

[Master Disaster]

Beauty giant L'Oréal and French bio printing company Poietis are joining forces to try and 3D print hair follicles that will grow actual hair. 

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Hair follicles created by a process similar to 3D printing could one day be used as implants, L'Oreal has said.

 

The cosmetics firm is partnering with a French bio-printing company called Poietis, which has developed a form of laser printing for cell-based objects.

 

Hair follicles have not been created this way before and the firms expect it will take at least three years to adapt the process.

 

However, one hair loss charity said it was too early "to be getting excited".

 

L'Oreal already uses 3D printed skin in its product research.

They point out that initially they only plan on using the hair for research purposes but that implanting the follicles would be "a holy grail" 

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"If we manage to bio-print a hair follicle we will enhance our knowledge of both hair biology and some of the mysteries of hair growth and loss," Jose Cotovio, a director at L'Oreal's Research and Innovation division, told the BBC.

 

Initially the follicles would be used to test new products, he added.

 

"Hair loss is very emotional for some people and very distressing - if we succeed in identifying some ingredients that can fight this it will be a huge revolution.

 

"The next step is, will it be possible to implant? This is the holy grail."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-37484835

 

Holy crap, I find that really fascinating, 3D printing actual human cells. How long until we can print organs? 

 

Interesting stuff. 

[AkiraDaarkst]

3 minutes ago, Master Disaster said:

Beauty giant L'Oréal and French bio printing company Poietis are joining forces to try and 3D print hair follicles that will grow actual hair. 

They point out that initially they only plan on using the hair for research purposes but that implanting the follicles would be "a holy grail" 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-37484835

 

Holy crap, I find that really fascinating, 3D printing actual human cells. How long until we can print organs? 

 

Interesting stuff. 

This reminds me of an interview or something of Gene Roddenberry, the creator of Star Trek.  When he was asked about Captain Picard, Patrick Stewart, being bald, Gene Roddenberry's response was something along the lines of "No one will care."

 

I thought there were already experiments being done to print organs.

[Mike Soda]

Hair is overrated, I cut mine so short I look like a Marine even though I'd never serve lol. A close cropped style saves on daily maintenance, less shampoo & water required. I wish these scientists would contact me, I'd gladly sell em mine.

[Bouzoo]

Just now, Mike Soda said:

Hair is overrated, I cut mine so short I look like a Marine even though I'd never serve lol. A close cropped style saves on daily maintenance, less shampoo & water required. I wish these scientists would contact me, I'd gladly sell em mine.

That is really a subjective thing, coming from a male person who had long hair. I for instance can't stand Marine short.  

[onlybuilt4cubanxlinx]

Idiocracy is becoming a reality. To much focus on hair loss and longevity in the sack. President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camocho lives.

[Mike Soda]

1 minute ago, Bouzoo said:

That is really a subjective thing, coming from a male person who had long hair. I for instance can't stand Marine short.  

Yeah I can add to that, my hair used to be longer. Although whenever it would curl behind my ear, OMG that was so aggravating lol. Straightening it probably would've helped & look better but I'm poor people.

[BingoFishy]

How would you put it in a person? At the very least, it would take a very long time.

[SurvivorNVL]

3D Print new people.  Ignore the ethics--imagine the military purposes!  

[LAwLz]

11 minutes ago, huilun02 said:

Why not 3d print organs? Save lives instead of just making fake women more fake. 

It's not like someone said "should we print a heart or hair? Fuck it, let's go with the hair". 

 

You have to walk before you run, and the techniques they come up with for printing the hair might also work for other organs in the future. 

[Senzelian]

13 hours ago, BingoFishy said:

How would you put it in a person? At the very least, it would take a very long time.

duct tape

[Nexro]

1 minute ago, huilun02 said:

I was thinkinh hot glue

Add some painters tape, then you'll get some color to it.

[dragosudeki]

7 hours ago, huilun02 said:

Why not 3d print organs? Save lives instead of just making fake women more fake. 

The complexity of organs is still much larger than hair. Don't even think hair has any functional purpose to begin with.

[ADM-Ntek]

sweet my hair is starting to thin out . so i hope this makes it to the market in like the next 10 years.

[PlayStation 2]

1 hour ago, dragosudeki said:

The complexity of organs is still much larger than hair. Don't even think hair has any functional purpose to begin with.

It could still lead to something else that might lead the development of 3D printed organs further.

[LAwLz]

1 hour ago, dragosudeki said:

The complexity of organs is still much larger than hair. Don't even think hair has any functional purpose to begin with.

Hair serves a few purposes.

 

The most interesting one I have heard of is that men tend to like long haired women because it shows signs of being young and healthy.

If you are unhealthy, then your hair will change. For example the color might become more faint, or it will become thinner, and so on. Since hair grows so slowly, a person with long hair and no sign of being unhealthy will show that they have been healthy for several years, and is therefore suitable to mate with.