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 ...

Cotton candy may be a distant carnival memory for most of us, but for one bioengineer, the sweet treat might hold the key to the future of artificial organ creation. Leon Bellan is an assistant ...

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 ...

Heat the sugar until it melts into a syrup, then spin the hot liquid through the holes in the machine. Centrifugal force ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 24, 2010 – Hailed as a "cross between a high-speed centrifuge and a cotton candy machine," bioengineers at Harvard have developed a new, practical technology for fabricating tiny ...

WINTERTHUR, Switzerland — September 4, 2025 — Precision, speed and cost efficiency are all indispensable, especially in ...

A Japanese woman had her entire scalp torn off her head in an accident with a cotton spinning machine. The woman caught her long hair in the machine, which twists together cotton fibers to make thread ...