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Help may soon at hand (or head) for the millions around the world who from and about baldness. Scientists from the University of Durham in the UK, and Columbia University Medical Centre in the USA, they are to a solution to grow new hair. This is also good news for burns victims, who are likely to be those first by any new treatment. The scientists have new hair follicles in the laboratory. This is different from currently available treatments, which simply hair from the back of the scalp to cover bald spots and areas without hair at the front of the head. Unlike transplants, the new procedure will the hair to keep naturally in the follicle.

Researcher Colin Jahoda did not a timeframe in which his research will be commercially available. He said: "It's closer, but it's still some way away because in terms of what people cosmetically they're for re-growth of hair that's the same shape, the same size, as long as before, the same angle. Some of these are almost engineering solutions." He did those with receding hairlines and those on top that there is hope. He said: "I think baldness will eventually be treatable, absolutely." Professor Jahoda's colleague Angela Christiano was equally positive, their research could "" hair-loss treatment. She said: "The first step is actually that it can be ."