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Okay, it's about time people could be like that Barbie doll in the early 80's, the one where you twisted her arm (?) and her hair grew. This waiting is a pain in the neck! (I'm NOT a patient kind of pup.....)
then Pete Townsend of 'the who' would have really really really long hair
The theoretical science of Molecular Nanotechnology, might be able to give you the hair you desire in thickness, texture, color, and length, all without surgery or taking drugs.
Look it up on the web, it is a fantastic idea for the real world.
Perhaps, you could lobby your congressmen and congresswomen to invest more money in Nanotech, to make it a reality faster!
Multi HMX-12
For more information, try this link:
http://www.foresight.org/UTF/Unbound_LBW/chapt_10.html
Here is just a small sample:
Rebuilding Tissues
Again, skin provides easy examples and may be a natural place to start in practice. People often want hair where they have
bare skin, and bare skin where they have hair. Cell herding machines could move or destroy hair follicle cells to eliminate an
unwanted hair, or grow more of the needed cells and arrange them into a working follicle where a hair is desired. By adjusting
the size of the follicle and the properties of some of the cells, hairs could be made coarser, or finer, or straighter, or curlier. All
these changes would involve no pain, toxic chemicals, or stench. Cell-herding devices could move down into the living layers of
skin, removing unwanted cells, stimulating the growth of new cells, narrowing unnaturally prominent blood vessels, insuring
good circulation by guiding the growth of any needed normal blood vessels, and moving cells and fibers around so as to
eliminate even deep wrinkles.
At the opposite end of the spectrum, cell herding will revolutionize treatment of life-threatening conditions. For example, the
most common cause of heart disease is reduced or interrupted supply of blood to the heart muscle. In pumping oxygenated
blood to the rest of the body, the heart diverts a portion for its own use though the coronary arteries. When these blood vessels
become constricted, we speak of coronary-artery disease. When they are blocked, causing heart muscle tissue to die, we
speak of someone "having a coronary," another term for heart attack.
Devices working in the bloodstream could nibble away at atherosclerotic deposits, widening the affected blood vessels. Cell
herding devices could restore artery walls and artery linings to health, by ensuring that the right cells and supporting structures
are in the right places. This would prevent most heart attacks.