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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...