Dear Dr. Rassman,
Replicel results are in! But I couldn’t understand, given the presented statistical data, if there are any reasons to be excited. Not that I’m mathematically crippled or anything, but because I’m not sure what a 12.3% change in vellus hair density would mean to a consumer like me, who is concerned more with adjectives like “bleh, ok, good and awesome”.
Care to share your thoughts for us laymen? Link is:
Thanks
In layman’s terms, I do not know exactly what 12.3% change in vellus hair really means either, but I think that it is safe to say that this is not an awesome result. I would like to know if there were noticeable cosmetic differences in appearance and knowing that the vellus hairs do not contribute much to the fullness of your hair, I would think that any impact would be best described as “ehhh”.
Vellus hair is the fine, almost invisible hair. It doesn’t mean squat. If it were a 12.3 percent change in terminal hair growth, then I’d say they were on to something!
I think this first trial was just to make sure it was safe. So presumably they were using fairly small doses over a small area, on a smallish number of people.
So that means results on amount of hair growth are fairly irrelevant just now, especially because it’s only 6 months down the line (and we know this isn’t long enough to tell if anything else has been effective like propecia or a hair transplant).
So in layman’s terms – it’s a not much to tell yet. See what they say in a couple of hours
Erm that should have been a couple of years…
Or forget about Replicel and encourage Histogen to finish quicker.
I’m glad the doc mentioned cosmetic results. This was a question the spin doctors at replicel always avoided. I guess because 12.5% more invisible hairs doesn’t really help.
Len, in a safety trial, the point is to find out with confidence that the drug is safe, so you use a quite high dose. If a high dose is safe, one assumes that a lower dose will be safe as well.
If the safety trial involved a low dose, you wouldn’t really be proving safety, and would be wasting years and millions of dollars.
I know a doctor in sri lanka who is doing hair cloning right now. He has done 150 patients. They all had no hair now they have a full head of hair. He is taking the hair from a sasquach and multiplying it in a special medium made from bat wing oil. He’s charging $5000 per head and pretty soon you’re going to hear about him. His name is Dr. Kumaraguru Rishimukkamuladevamuhat. He is in village named Sigiriya.
check out the financial for replicel, look at the 5 year view, also May 2nd announcement comes just in time as the stock is in free fall, starting on April 30th.
http://www.replicel.com/investors/stock-info/
not very promising…