Hairloss Genetics and Gene Therapy

Hairloss Treatment Type	Recombinant DNA Gene Therapy
Availability	Not Yet Available
Notes	Welcome to the future. This treatment represents the most likely "cure" for baldness. The end to daily treatments and a 100% response rate in everyone. The company "AntiCancer, Inc." has developed a method for delivering good genes to the hair follicles. All that is needed are the good genes to deliver. Other delivery methods have been developed for delivering genes to skin tissue as well and the future is very hopeful for hairloss. Many projects and companies are currently attempting to map as many genes as possible.

• Gene Therapy May Hold Cure to Baldness
• New Study Shows DHT Genes Don't Cause Baldness
• Original Hairless Gene Story
• Newspaper article on liposomal gene therapy
• Journal of Investigative Dermatology: A more in depth, updated article on gene therapy
• Journal of Investigative Dermatology: An article on viral vectors for DNA therapy for skin tissue
• Journal of Investigative Dermatology: An article on why retroviral gene therapy isn't currently comletely effective

• MedLine article on liposomal gene therapy
• Evidence for a single gene causing Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome and genetic hairloss

Related Links:

• GDB Human Genome Database - Part of the Human Genome Project.
• Gene Map of the Human Genome
• Human Genome Organisation
• Human Genome Project Information
• Institute for Human Gene Therapy
• Introduction to Gene Therapy - By the Vanderbilt Clinical Research Center
• Gene Therapy - An Overview - By Access Excellence
• National Human Genome Research Institute - At the National Institute of Health
• Gene Therapy Weekly - The world's only gene therapy newsweekly