" Spin Off " -- The Discovery Files

Cotton candy machines have inspired a new way to build capillary structures necessary to make full-scale artificial livers, kidneys, bones and other essential organs. While some may call the approach a little crazy, engineers have shown the machines make possible a simple technique to make microfluidic networks that mimic the three-dimensional capillary system in the human body in a cell-friendly fashion.
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