Candy floss leads to breakthrough for artificial organs

10 February 2016 - 14:06

By Katharine Child

Candy floss machines may hold the key to designing life-sized artificial livers‚ kidneys‚ bones and other organs. Assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Vanderbilt University‚ Leon Bellan‚ has been using candy floss machines to make networks of artificial blood vessels the size‚ density and complexity of human capillaries.

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