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A team of scientists discovered that using a chemical found in McDonald's French fries can help grow hair follicles. (Yokohama National University)
McDonald's "world-famous French fries" may be more than just a solution to hunger.
A Japanese stem cell research team may have found a way to eliminate baldness by using an ingredient in McDonald’s French fries.
Scientists at Yokohama National University have discovered chemical dimethyl polysiloxane, a silicone used in McDonald's frying oil to prevent splashing, and can be used to produce hair follicles in rats.
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According to this research, this "simple method" has been proven to be widely successful in creating "hair follicle germs" (HFG) or cells that help hair follicles grow.
The research team attributed dimethylpolysiloxane to groundbreaking experiments that have resulted in thousands of hair follicle bacteria appearing at the same time.
"The key to large-scale production of HFGs is to select the substrate for the culture vessel," Professor Junji Fukuda said in the research. "We used oxygen permeable dimethyl polysiloxane (PDMS) at the bottom of the culture vessel, and the effect was very good."
Once HGF is transplanted to the back of the mouse, new black hairs will begin to grow in these areas.
The study stated that the technology "created 5,000 HFGs at the same time and reported the new hair growth of HFG after transplantation into mice."
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Although the method is only used in mice, the team believes that the technology will be able to be used in humans and achieve equally impressive results.
Fukuda said: "This simple method is very effective and promising. We hope that this technology can improve human hair regrowth therapy to treat androgenetic alopecia (male pattern baldness) and other hair loss. In fact, we have preliminary data to show that Human HFG is formed using human keratinocytes and dermal papilla cells."
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