Ask HN: What are you surprised isn’t being worked on more?

Re:Ask HN: What are you surprised isn’t being worked on more? by ben_w on Tuesday December 29, 2020 @06:52AM (#25568912)

That sounds like a wig, only harder to wash, and with added pain if/when it gets stuck in something, and a bigger fire hazard than either a wig or natural hair.

I’m still a bit surprised nobody is trying to tissue-culture skin with follicles that don’t go bald in the same way. Artists have already done the tissue culture part with a different goal in mind, and the tech in this area has been developing rapidly: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victimless_Leather

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Re:Ask HN: What are you surprised isn’t being worked on more? by copperwater69 on Tuesday December 29, 2020 @07:09AM (#25568999)

I believe there was a japanese company named 'organ technologies' that was trying that using organ cloning [0] - a brief google of shows sad webpage names like "Director of research Dr. Tsuji resigns from position"

[0] https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsob.190010

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