Researchers took inspiration from a conventional cotton candy machine to create highly complex, microscale channels of artificial capillaries. Instead of spinning sugar, they spun fine threads of polymer that are capable of keeping cells alive and functional for more than a week.
Cotton Candy Machine Inspires Method For Making Life-Sized Artificial Organs
Tech Times - 9 Feb 2016 17:38
Researchers took inspiration from a conventional cotton candy machine to create highly complex, microscale channels of artificial capillaries. Instead of spinning sugar, they spun fine threads of polymer that are capable of keeping cells alive and functional for more than a week.
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