From growing a full thymus gland inside a mouse, to creating a slice of artificial liver tissue, to using ink jet printing technology to create a human ear, researchers are steadily moving us toward ...

Go to your local fair and watch a carny spin you a cone of candy floss. You might not know it, but that’s how your body is put together: the structure of cotton candy is remarkably similar to the ...

Hailed as a "cross between a high-speed centrifuge and a cotton candy machine," a new, practical technology for fabricating tiny nanofibers has been developed by bioengineers. The reference to the ...

on Feb. 4, Bellan and his team of researchers reported that they were successful at producing a three-dimensional artificial capillary system that can keep living cells viable and functional for more ...

For several years, Leon Bellan, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Vanderbilt University, has been tinkering with cotton candy machines, getting them to spin out networks of tiny threads ...

NASHVILLE, Feb. 9 (UPI) --The mechanics of a cotton candy machine are proving useful to the quest to build life-sized artificial organs. Capillaries are the body's most narrow blood vessels. The ...

Twenty-five years ago, Ni Meijuan earned $19 a month working the spinning machines at a vast textile factory in the Chinese city of Hangzhou. Now at the Keer's cotton mill in South Carolina, which ...