Baldness is just part of life. There are some remedies and quick fixes, but they don't address the entire problem. Now, a team of researchers from Columbia have developed a new way to induce new human hair growth for the first time ever. Yes, you're reading this right. They can grow your hair back for you.

The technique is centered on the behavior of human dermal papilla cells. They make the base of hair follicles and the idea of using dermal papilla cells to generate new hair growth has been around for 40 years already. The only problem back then was scientists had a hard time doing it since the cells simply revert back to basic skin cells when they're put into a culture.

Rodent papillae doesn't seem to have that problem. They clump together and make it easier for the cells to communicate with each other.

The Columbia researchers figured out how to encourage human papillae to get together to party in a culture. They harvested a couple of samples from human donors, and the researchers transplanted the cells between the dermis and epidermis of human skin and grafted them onto the backs of mice.

In just a few days, they found that the hair was growing like normal. The hair was growing on the backs of mice, but the hair was human.

The research is still in its very early stages, which means, you're not getting that patch of hair back just yet. For now, maybe the combover or the shave-it-all-off technique would do just fine.

[Columbia via Science Daily]