Raise The Banner - UCLA Scientists Are Reportedly Close To Solving Baldness, Found Some Molecule That You Rub On Your Head For Hair To Grow Back

I questioned if this was true, so I did the responsible thing. I Googled'd the same thing and looked until I found something I recognized. This is from UCLA: 

[Source] - UCLA scientists have now identified a small molecule that, when prompted, can waken long-slumbering but undamaged follicles. The researchers have dubbed the transporting molecule “PP405” (perhaps as a tribute to another headache L.A. residents have to deal with, the 405 freeway). 

Lab work on the molecule has been going on for almost a decade. In the first human trials, conducted in 2023, researchers found that application of PP405 as a topical medicine onto the scalp at bedtime for a week produced promising results.

So you just rub this random molecule on your head and bam I become hot again? Sign me up. Actually, don't and I say this as a bald man. I had great hair up front, it was the circle on the top of the head that was awful. Being bald or deciding to go bald, is a rite of passage, it's a fight against time and genetics. I knew it was coming, hard not to when there's baldness on both sides of the family. It was a matter of time, a fight against time, one that we always lose before I gave it up for good. 

Let me say this too. Being bald is fine. Of course I miss my hair or going and getting a haircut, but I also never have to spend time asking how my hair looks. I don't have to worry about people looking down and seeing my bald spot. The entire dome being bald makes life easier to answer questions. But if you gave me some cream to just put on my head before bed? Yeah, I would have done that when I was in my early 30s and prevented all of this. 

Gotta hand it to UCLA though. They may suck at football and inconsistent with basketball these days, but, they are solving baldness. That's how you bounce back from people saying you shouldn't be a blue blood program anymore. If you become the school that solves baldness, I'd let you raise a banner. It's better than the Heat hanging Michael Jordan's. 

I'm far too dumb to understand how molecules are found and all of a sudden solve hair simply by quoting Bill Belichick, but I know that this is big for a large group in the country. Everyone knows a handful of bald guys, their day just got better. Also sounds way better than rubbing a donkey hoof on my head. No chance I'd do that, you just gotta suffer being a bald man at that point.