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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Cotton-based manufacturing in the UK has experienced a resurgence during the last few years on the back of growing demand for Made in Britain product, but the missing piece of the jigsaw has been ...

Cotton candy is all grown up. No longer relegated to descriptive flavors like pink and blue, Fluffpops is reinventing the sugary treat for a more mature audience. Spun in small-scale cotton candy ...

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 ...