On Fri, 11 Jun 1999, Jason Liao wrote:

Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 12:51:28 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jason Liao <jasonl@hun.k12.nj.us>
To: ffml@fanfic.com
Subject: [FFML] [info]Anime hair in real life...

Looking around on the web, I happened to notice this article.  While most
of it is snipped out, I thought that the third paragraph might be of
particular interest to people on the list.  While later in the article,
there's a link to the submitted report, when I followed the link, I was
unable to find it.

                     Gene Therapy for the Bald
                     Reuters 

                     3:00 a.m.  11.Jun.99.PDT
                     It might be possible to use gene therapy
                     to treat baldness, researchers said on
                     Thursday. 

                     A team at the University of Pennsylvania
                     said they had managed to cause
                     growing human hairs to take up genetic
                     material -- and said it had been easier
                     than they expected. 

                     So far, they have only been able to turn
                     hair blue. But they say the idea could
                     someday be applied to growing hair. 

You know, I always wanted blue hair...naturally!
Seriously, through, that sorta gives a new meaning to the expression of "dipping
into the shallow end of the gene pool." Hmm...I wonder...you don't suppose
that's how Washu got her funky hair color by genetically altering it to pink?