{"id":400489,"date":"2026-07-16T07:46:32","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T07:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/400489\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T07:46:32","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T07:46:32","slug":"hair-regrowth-follicle-banks-and-cloning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/400489\/","title":{"rendered":"Hair Regrowth: Follicle Banks and Cloning"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tFor decades, the hair-loss conversation<\/a> centered on what could be added to one\u2019s habits or head: minoxidil, finasteride, transplants or extensions, with widely varying success rates. While we wait until early 2028<\/a> for the FDA to potentially approve a new, more effective VDPHL01 hair pill, those who don\u2019t want to see their hairlines recede further or their locks grow sparser might wish to look into hair banking, i.e., having your own hair potentially beget future hairs, with, eventually, the ability to clone follicles and restore what was lost without limits.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cHair follicle multiplication holds tremendous promise as the holy grail of hair restoration,\u201d says Dr. Alan J. Bauman of New York City\u2019s Bauman Medical, one of the country\u2019s leading hair restoration physicians. \u201cThe ability to create an unlimited number of a patient\u2019s own genetically matched follicles would overcome current donor limitations,\u201d i.e., the finite amount of lawn on the back of your head needed to resod the front of it. The concept is directly borrowed from fertility medicine<\/a>, like IVF and egg freezing: Bank your cells now, while they\u2019re young and viable, and you\u2019ll have the raw material for whatever regenerative medicine can do next, including, possibly over the next decade, cloning them. Bauman has banked his own and says that not a week passes without a celebrity inquiry.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tDr. Alan Bauman performs a FUE hair transplant.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\n\tA provider harvests roughly 50 healthy follicles in a 30-minute, no-anesthesia procedure. Those follicles are sent to a laboratory, where they are tested and cryogenically preserved. Aside from banking follicles for future reimplantation, scientists from such leading entities as Toronto-based Acorn Biolabs can create a personalized \u201csecretome,\u201d an experimental, active cocktail of growth factors and cellular messengers that send repairing signals, like exosomes, cytokines and peptides. Says board-certified dermatologist and derma-pathologist Dr. Lady Dy, \u201cThe highly concentrated secretome can be delivered back to the patient\u2019s scalp through injection, microneedling\u201d or Alma TED, an \u201cultrasound and acoustic pressure technology that enhances delivery\u201d deep into the scalp without needles or downtime. A 12-session package costs $12,000; secretomes can be cold stored for up to two years.<\/p>\n

\n\tDr. Antonella Tosti, one of the world\u2019s foremost hair specialists, sees exosomes on their own as the most exciting development: \u201cThey may simultaneously reduce inflammation, promote tissue repair, support stem cell activity and enhance regenerative signaling.\u201d Similar to secretomes, the goal is not to slow hair loss, but to repair and restore the follicle. Stand-alone exosome sessions typically range from $1,500 to $5,000; multisession packages can run $3,000 to $10,000 or more. For a smaller price tag, platelet-derived, exosome-based products like Plated Hair Serum \u2014 fans include celebrity hairstylist Sami Knight and Hailey Bieber \u2014 can typically cost under $400 for a 1-fluid-ounce bottle.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tPlated Hair Serum<\/p>\n

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\n\tOther topicals treating hair growth like skin care are OMI WellBeauty\u2019s Hair Growth Peptide (Kris Jenner and Khlo\u00e9 Kardashian are investors), which uses a patented, keratin-derived peptide formula to improve hair strength and thickness; and Harklinikken, a 32-year-old Danish clinic that custom-blends botanical growth extracts for each client\u2019s scalp biology, and counts Gwyneth Paltrow, Naomi Watts and Malin Akerman as devotees. Then there\u2019s KeraFactor, a no-needle synthetic peptide complex, which is ideal after transplant surgeries, among other uses. Board-certified dermatologist Dr. Sapna Palep of Journelle Skin sees strong results for both men and women in four to six months.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tDr. Ava Shamban using Ted ALMA for hair restoration.<\/p>\n

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\n\tThe science underpinning all of it is moving fast. \u201cWe\u2019ve never had anything beyond two FDA-approved products for hair loss for almost 30 years,\u201d says Dy. In addition to the VDPHL01 pill in development, Pelage Pharmaceuticals\u2019 PP405 topical drug targets dormant follicle stem cells, essentially waking them up, and is advancing through trials.<\/p>\n

\n\tNot every expert believes restoration begins at the follicle, however. Dr. Elroy Vojdani from L.A.\u2019s Regenera Medical argues that successful treatment requires first understanding what\u2019s driving loss systemically. \u201cMy whole take is that hair loss is usually a systemic thing, not a scalp thing,\u201d he says. \u201cThe follicle burns through a huge amount of energy, so it\u2019s often the first place that shows something\u2019s off with your metabolism or immune system. Fix that and the hair tends to follow.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThis story appears in The Hollywood Reporter\u2019s July 2026 issue \u201cThe New Face of Hollywood.\u201d Click here to read more<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For decades, the hair-loss conversation centered on what could be added to one\u2019s habits or head: minoxidil, finasteride,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":400490,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[157872,130876,160352,4521,48,52,51,47,50,49,19607],"class_list":["post-400489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-a-list-aesthetics","tag-aesthetics","tag-aesthetics-2026","tag-beauty","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-plastic-surgery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}