Tiny, short-term hair growing experiment grows huge news coverage

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A paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences describes a technique to grow hairs on human skin grafted onto mice.
New hair follicles appeared on 5 of 7 transplants attempted. The longest duration of any graft in the study was 6 weeks; so no long-term followup.
That’s right.  5 successful attempts.  Yet this dominated the news.....