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These findings go beyond just a possible treatment for male-pattern baldness. If researchers can effectively control hair growth, then they could potentially find cures for people with hair and scalp disorders, such as scarring alopecia where the skin scars, and hair overgrowth.
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Dr. G. T. Jackson read a paper recently before the New York county medical society on baldness and its treatment. He described four varieties of baldness, or alopecia : 1°. Alopecia adnata, the congenital form ; 3°. A. senilis ; 8°. A. prematura; 4°. A. areata.
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October, 2006 - The British government is providing funding to a Cambridge -based company that is building a robot to help treat baldness. Biosciences firm Intercytex aims to perfect a treatment that involves taking hair follicles from the back of the neck, multiplying them and replanting them where they are needed.
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