Growing Hair from Bioprinted Follicles
November 1, 2016 | Terry Sharrer
In 2015, the hair and skin products company L’Oreal partnered with Organovo to bioprint human skin for cosmetics testing. Its latest venture in tissue engineering, bioprinted hair follicles, may also be directed at product testing without using animals, but it doesn’t take much imagination to see L’Oreal leading the way in hair restoration via transplanted, bioprinted living tissue. MORE