I did a search through the 2007 news archives to see what other cures would be available now in 2012:
Daily Telegraph (London), 6 Jun 2007
“Cure for blindness ‘within five years’”
Daily Telegraph (Sydney, Australia), 28 May 2007
“Cancer genes identified – discovery paves way for screening within five years”
Daily Mail (London), 23 Feb 2003
“Cure for meningitis ‘within five years’”
Evening Standard (London), 12 Dec 2007
“Vaccine could save tens of thousands from diabetes” (“within five years”)
New Vision (Kampala, Uganda), 28 Oct 2007
“Trial Malaria Vaccine Works for Babies” (“useable vaccine within five years”)
South China Morning Post (Hong Kong), 8 May 2007
“Beijing targets halving of HIV cases” (“cut the infection and death rate by half within five years”
What a time we live in! Although I can’t remember seeing the follow-up reports to these that they’re now ready and available to the public.
If this is true, and by God I hope it is, I’m going to rub it all over my body so I look like a monkey.
It’s no big deal, they already got hair that will grow out of algae and ocean sponges. Eventually you’ll be able to spray your face, and have a 1” long beard the next morning. Eventually if someone desires to get hairy, they’ll even have a choice of colors.
I want a monk haircut and Abraham Lincoln beard.
Oh, goody, a head full of thin, stringy, gray hair!
They’ve known for a long time DHT kills off hair follicles.
The trick is supressing DHT on the scalp. You can’t get the body to stop making it because it’s a form of testosterone, but if they can prevent it from choking off scalp hair, that’d be great.
Hm. My husband was bald when I met him, twenty-odd years ago. Hard to imagine what he’d look like with hair!
My hair started coming out when I was a teenager.
My pediatrician said not to worry and told me “My best friend in college was slick as a brick, but he was a fine fellow.”
I later learned that it was caused by excess testosterone
and that it is why bald men are such sexual animals, hahaha
It must be true, as at age 67 I have a 13 month old baby boy :)
By the way, the gene for baldness comes from your mother.
What about baldness in women?