The article sounds like it is just a new type of hair transplant. The way I see it: Anything that will make hair grow on a bald head will have to be powerful medicine, either chemical or mechanical. Powerful medicine always has major disadvantages, and it becomes a matter of choosing the lesser evil. Now if a person could die from baldness, then this sort of thing would definitely be worthwhile. But since baldness is merely a cosmetic issue, curing it is not worth these kinds of risks, and the research money would be better spent on finding cures for real diseases.
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