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 ...

NEW YORK – Cotton ... a paper published online this week by the journal Soft Matter. Here’s how their technique would work: First, you pour a thick liquid chemical over a wad of cotton candy.

Cotton candy has delighted children for a century ... And seed the solid chunk with immature cells of whatever tissue you're trying to make. The block is biodegradable, and as it disappears ...

Among the 1,000 or so works of paper art on display ... He tested cotton and various other materials. But none of them proved satisfactory until Fujita tried sheets of tissue paper.