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Cotton candy machines may hold key for making artificial organs

February 9, 2016

Engineers have modified the cotton candy machine to create complex microfluidic networks that mimic the capillary system in living tissue and have demonstrated that these networks can keep cells alive and functioning in an artificial three-dimensional matrix. Read more and watch the video at Research News @ Vanderbilt.