Sweet! Cotton candy may help labs grow tissue

Wednesday, February 11, 2009 - 15:56 in Health & Medicine

Cotton candy has delighted children for a century. Now it may have found a new role: helping scientists grow replacement tissues for people. The flossy stuff may be just right for creating networks of blood vessels within laboratory-grown bone, skin, muscle or fat for breast reconstruction, researchers suggest.

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