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This is not her official title, she is in fact investor relations manager, but Katharine Harris spends a great deal of her time answering letters from bald men.

"Hundreds of them," she says.

"We get emails from men saying how their life is a misery and they would do anything to get their hair back." The folk at Intercytex, which floated on the London AIM market last week, are resigned to the jokes, the awful puns of the "hair today (Tuesday, 07 February), gone tomorrow (Wednesday, 08 February)" variety, but they are very serious about what they do.

They don't plead for an end to the silliness, they know that's a vain hope, but there is a lot more to this company than all the wigging.

As well as offering bald people a chance of new hair growth, and in a quite revolutionary way, they are also involved in replacement skin, wound-healing, and anti-wrinkle and acne-scar treatment.

The company was founded in 1999 by Paul Kemp, who had spent more than a decade in the US working for a company ...

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