{"id":22080,"date":"2016-02-14T00:31:28","date_gmt":"2016-02-14T08:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/cotton-candy-may-be-the-key-to-creating-artificial-organs"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:11:10","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:11:10","slug":"cotton-candy-may-be-the-key-to-creating-artificial-organs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/cotton-candy-may-be-the-key-to-creating-artificial-organs","title":{"rendered":"Cotton Candy May be the Key to Creating Artificial Organs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cotton-candy-may-be-the-key-to-creating-artificial-organs.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cotton Candy\u2019s new inspiration.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Scientists are now able to spin a three-dimensional slab of gelatin that contains a microvascular network, something very like our capillaries, using a cotton candy-esque machine.<\/p>\n<p>What do cotton candy and artificial organs have in common? More than you might think.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.vanderbilt.edu\/2016\/02\/cotton-candy-machines-may-hold-key-for-making-artificial-organs\/\">Leon Bellan<\/a>, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Vanderbilt University, is using a cotton candy machine to spin out networks of tiny threads comparable in size, density, and complexity to the patterns formed by capillaries.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/futurism.com\/cotton-candy-may-key-creating-artificial-organs\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cotton Candy\u2019s new inspiration. Scientists are now able to spin a three-dimensional slab of gelatin that contains a microvascular network, something very like our capillaries, using a cotton candy-esque machine. 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, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,38,1506],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-engineering","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22080"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68464,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22080\/revisions\/68464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}