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Donor Organs
One big goal in medical science is to figure out how to grow or three dy prant organs and bon ons out of organic material. The circulatory system, needed to carry blood through organs, both real and man made, branch into teeny tiny capillaries that are so small and complicated they are difficult and time consuming to construct. A mechanical engineering professor was thinking about ways to solve this problem when the concept of thec tory systemw with its thin, dense systems of extremely thin strands,. reminded him of something cotton candy. So cotton candy machines spin out thin networks of dense strands of sugar. And he thought, maybe he could make them spin out networks of other stuff too
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