Posted on 02/10/2016 8:21:34 PM PST by BenLurkin
Researchers at Vanderbilt University think they have found the key to creating artificial capillaries, livers and other human organs - and it's all thanks to everyone's favorite state fair treat, cotton candy.
The results of the team's research, published in the scientific journal Advanced Healthcare Materials, explains that the scientists, lead by Vanderbilt's assistant professor of mechanical engineering Leon Bellan, were able to "spin" artificial models of both human organs and veins with a simple $40 cotton candy machine. Inspired by the "fine" nature of cotton candy, which acts as a sort of intricate fiber - or, in the case of the particular way in which cotton candy is produced, "electrospun fiber" - Bellan substituted hydrogel for the edible, cloud-like substance.
"The analogies everyone uses to describe electrospun fibers are that they look like silly string, or Cheese Whiz, or cotton candy," said Bellan, describing the initial inspiration behind the study in an official statement issued by VU. "So I decided to give the cotton candy machine a try. I went to Target and bought a cotton candy machine for about $40" - and the rest was history.
(Excerpt) Read more at techtimes.com ...
My only question is :
Will this prove to a viable method of replacing human organs?
nice pic, but let’s not get carried away. LOL
“Now You Can Make Artificial Human Organs With A $40 Cotton Candy Machine”
Makes total sense once you understand the following basic architecture of human physiology:
What are little boys made of?
Snips and snails
And puppy-dogs’ tails
That’s what little boys are made of
What are little girls made of?
Sugar and spice
And everything nice
That’s what little girls are made of
They are a long way from being there.
They can make porous gelatin, but no capillary walls, much less any functioning cells.
OPI
Wonder Bread used to advertise that it was great
for building young bodies. Steve Allen cracked
that he’d like it to build him an 18-year old blonde.
Now that I think about it,
it was “growing” young bodies,
but the joke still works.
Think what this means to Congress! We can now give them vital organs they lack. Like brains.
Punchline from an old joke:
Grow grow grow with Lang Lang Langendorf bread.
ive been saying this for years, but no one would listen to me
Cool, I’m going to go buy a drill and a cotton candy machine and make some boobs in the back office
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