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What do cotton candy and artificial organs have in common? More than you might think. Leon Bellan, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Vanderbilt University, is using a cotton candy ...

Hailed as a "cross between a high-speed centrifuge and a cotton candy machine," a new, practical technology for fabricating tiny nanofibers has been developed by bioengineers. The reference to the ...