Beat Baldness By Storing Hair Strands?
Company Preserves Hair Until Cure Is Discovered
POSTED: 9:50 a.m. EDT April 29, 2002
Hair today, gone tomorrow. Now a Silicon Valley entrepreneur thinks he may have a gold mine in golden locks -- red and brunette, too.
Mike Blaylock has started a company called Hairogenics, for people who dread the day their dreadlocks are gone. Blaylock's San Francisco startup offers to preserve the strands until science finds a cure for baldness.
"Ask five different scientists when simple cell repair products will be available to the public and you'll get five different answers," Blaylock said. "Odds are good that a cure for baldness will be found within the next ten to 50 years. Question is, what if this new cure requires a sizable sample of your hair from when you were young and healthy? It's not worth the risk."
Blaylock said the hair is being stored underground in a vault in Portland, Ore., that's ideal for preserving human DNA. Hair samples are vacuum-sealed in waterproof packages.
The service costs $49 for the initial hair collection kit, and a $10 annual storage fee after that.
According to the American Academy of Dermatology, more than 50 million men in America suffer from hereditary hair loss.
Mike Blaylock has started a company called Hairogenics, for people who dread the day their dreadlocks are gone. Blaylock's San Francisco startup offers to preserve the strands until science finds a cure for baldness.
"Ask five different scientists when simple cell repair products will be available to the public and you'll get five different answers," Blaylock said. "Odds are good that a cure for baldness will be found within the next ten to 50 years. Question is, what if this new cure requires a sizable sample of your hair from when you were young and healthy? It's not worth the risk."
Blaylock said the hair is being stored underground in a vault in Portland, Ore., that's ideal for preserving human DNA. Hair samples are vacuum-sealed in waterproof packages.
The service costs $49 for the initial hair collection kit, and a $10 annual storage fee after that.
According to the American Academy of Dermatology, more than 50 million men in America suffer from hereditary hair loss.
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