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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 26, 2012
Filed:
Apr. 14, 2008
Applicants:
Basil M. Hantash, East Palo Alto, CA (US);
George Frangineas, Fremont, CA (US);
Leonard C. Debenedictis, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Inventors:
Basil M. Hantash, East Palo Alto, CA (US);
George Frangineas, Fremont, CA (US);
Leonard C. DeBenedictis, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Assignee:
Reliant Technologies, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 26/08 (2006.01); G02B 26/10 (2006.01); G02B 26/12 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method of restoring hair to skin that has suffered hair loss includes optically ablating an array of spaced-apart microchannels or voids into the skin and transplanting into the voids stem cells, a scaffold and a differentiation factor for causing the stem cells to differentiate into hair follicles.