Recently the humble potato sticks were identified as the cure for baldness. The researchers at Yokohama National University in Japan deduced that an ingredient \u2013 dimethylpolysiloxane \u2013 they believed, could help improve hair growth therapies. This ingredient is also incidentally added to the oil to cook the famous fries. After the connection was made the news was widely shared. However, if that had given you another reason to indulge in the delicious fries, then there is some bad news for you. The Japanese researcher, who was behind the study has now said the results were misconstrued and that eating fries from the fast food chain McDonald\u2019s has no relation with being cured from baldness.<\/p>\n
One of the most challenging obstacle to hair regenerative medicine has been the preparation of hair follicle germs and according to the study, scientists have developed a method for large-scale preparation of hair follicle germ (HFG) in-vitro through self-organisations of cells. According to a report in the Science Daily, \u201cThe paper, published in the journal Biomaterials, reports the successful preparation of up to 5000 HFGs simultaneously, and reports new hair growth from the HFGs after transplantation into mice.\u201d But nowhere was McDonald\u2019s mentioned in it and it was first tried on animals.<\/p>\n
Junji Fukuda, Professor, Yokohama National University had said, \u201cThe key for the mass production of HFGs was a choice of substrate materials for culture vessel.\u201d \u201cWe used oxygen-permeable dimethylpolysiloxane (PDMS) at the bottom of culture vessel, and it worked very well,\u201d he had added. It was later pointed out by some that dimethylpolysiloxane is also used by McDonald\u2019s in their frying oil to prevent foaming and hence the connection was made.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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