This is a way of taking national pride to a new level. cd LONDON (Reuters) - The British government is providing 1.85 million pounds ($3.5 million) 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 company said on Friday it had been awarded funding from the government's Technology Program, which it planned to use to develop a robotic system to speed up the painstaking process of multiplying the hair cells before they are replanted.
UK government funds robot to help treat baldness
UK government funds robot to help treat…
UK government funds robot to help treat baldness
This is a way of taking national pride to a new level. cd LONDON (Reuters) - The British government is providing 1.85 million pounds ($3.5 million) 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 company said on Friday it had been awarded funding from the government's Technology Program, which it planned to use to develop a robotic system to speed up the painstaking process of multiplying the hair cells before they are replanted.