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Help may soon be hand (or head) for the millions the world who suffer and worry about baldness. Scientists the University of Durham the UK, and Columbia University Medical Centre the USA, say they are close to finding a solution to grow new hair. This is also good news burns victims, who are likely to be those first helped any new treatment. The scientists have grown new hair follicles the laboratory. This is different currently available treatments, which simply transplant hair the back the scalp to cover bald spots and areas hair the of the head. Unlike transplants, the new procedure will allow the hair to keep growing naturally the follicle.

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