Coming soon: A cure for baldness, say German scientists, who claim to have grown hair follicles from stem cells for the first time.

Although their research used cells taken from animals, the scientists from Technical University in Berlin hope that they can create human hair follicles from human stem cells in a year's time. Stem cells are the body's master cells. With manipulation in the laboratory, they can be grown into any tissue in the human body from blood to bone and whole organs.