Fantastic news for balding chip-enthusiasts.

Scientists in Japan have figured out that a chemical used by McDonald's on their fries helps mass produce hair follicle germs (HFGs). Working with mice, the scientists proved that these HFGs helped develop new follicles which grew thick hair on the heads and backs of the rodents. Sadly, it appears that the answer to hair-loss woes is not as easy as just non-stop eating chips forever. Instead, the chemical which promotes hair growth in question, dimethylpolysiloxane - which the fast-food giant adds to prevent the oil in which chips are fried from foaming - has been used by scientists to help prepare the vessel in which HFGs are grown. Hair-loss treatment in the present day aims to reduce the velocity in which the hair is lost, rather than reproduce hair that has already ceased to grow back. However, HFGs are proving otherwise, if these mice are anything to go by. This new method, championed by Yokohama National University, was able to produce up to 5,000 new follicles simultaneously, enough to turn back the clock on male pattern baldness altogether. Maybe someone should've told Brian McFadden...