why has no one truly solved male pattern baldness (particularly as the commercial incentives must be huge)
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I imagine the first real “cure” will be cloning your hair cells – the ones that aren’t affected by MPB – the hair you’ll be growing til you die. You go in, they take a sample, and x-weeks later you return and they have a zillion hair follicles to transplant in your head – and it will likely be done by some sort of robotic arm-thing. Problem is, hair follicles are difficult to clone.
I do believe there would be a big market for it, but like any marketing thing, it’s about price vs. value. If it’s truly permanent, looks natural and can be done without multiple visits and tons of recovery time – what’s the price point at introduction? $10k for a full head of hair? People will pay that to get perfect white teeth. How long until you go through the $10k crowd and start dropping the price? What’s the break-even for all the R&D and service infrastructure that would have to be accomplished?
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