The UK government is providing 1.85 million pounds of funding to a Cambridge-based company that is building a robot to help treat baldness.
Biosciences firm Intercytex aims to perfect a treatment that involves taking hair follicles from the back of the neck, multiplying them and replanting them where they are needed.
"The technology is challenging. No one has done this before", said Intercytex Chief Executive Nick Higgins
"We take cells responsible for hair growth, multiply them and then inject them in the head. We tease out the cells responsible for growing a new hair."
"The challenge is to make sure they grow thick enough and quick enough so they are cosmetically acceptable," he added.
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