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Chapter 5 - oh wow 🤯

“You reach a point in life where you figure you’ve catalogued your flaws. You’re aware of all the ways your body and mind are below par, and you’ve made your peace with it. Then someone comes along and lets it be known that your follicle cells are weakly. (Also that they’re strangely pointy.)”

Mary donating her follicles for pluripotent hair regeneration is so fun and so her.

“So much of science is waiting,” McDonnell says. And when something finally works? “I cannot describe to you the satisfaction!”

“As with much of regenerative medicine, smaller is easier. A ventricle is easier than a heart; a mouse ventricle, easier still. One of the companies furthest along has set its sights on the smallest organ of all: the human hair follicle. Long before regenerative medicine grows a heart or reverses liver failure, it may well conquer baldness.”

“We owe our scientists a lot. We owe them gratitude, awe, respect. Mostly what they want from us, of course, is a little more funding.”

“Collagen has an appeal for would-be organ builders. It has no live cells, and thus none of the cell surface proteins that prompt the immune system to attack. The body will accept foreign collagen — from cows, pigs, most any mammal — without much fuss.”

My God!!!

This book’s introduction, hypothesis and questions for why blew my mind. 🤯

Roach is brilliant 😍

Now that’s how you open a book !!! 🔥