We always knew carny food held the secret to immortality. Thanks for confirming it, Science!
5 Everyday Objects Scientists MacGyvered Into Huge Advances
#5. Cotton Candy Can Be Used to Create Artificial Human Organs
One Leon Bellan, a graduate student, was listening to a lecture in Cornell’s Nanobiotechnology Center and the not-at-all-creepy thought came to him that cotton candy must look a lot like human veins under a microscope. … The microscopic size of human capillaries is both the key to and the major challenge of creating working organs from scratch. You can make as many fake spleens as you want, but if their cells aren’t properly irrigated with blood, they won’t be able to … uh, spleen things out properly. Bellan’s solution: Place some glittery sugar fluff in an organ-shaped mold, fill it with a special polymer, and then soak it in hot water and alcohol for several days to let the candy melt away. The result? The “organ” was now filled with an almost completely natural-looking network of microscopic channels.
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