Some American researchers have got a new role for the candy floss.  According to study it can help create small and intricate blood vessels. The traditional cotton candies have always been an attraction to children for many years. Researchers hope that the findings help the kids’ choice. The research led by Jason Spector of New York-Presbyterian Hospital and Leon Bellan of Cornell University has found that cotton candies can be used as a template to grow artificial vascular networks inside engineered tissue, needed particularly throughout transplants. For the study, the researchers placed several candies in a non-stick mould, and poured over a polymer-resin mix that set hard after a day. Then they dissolved away the sugar using water and alcohol to leave a solid cube shot all the way through with a network of channels.

New Scientist magazine reports after that the researchers discover that the channels were analogous in dimensions to real networks of capillaries. To illustrate that blood could flow very easily through the material, the research group pumped rat blood with fluorescent labeling through the network. Now, the researchers are working on creating casts using a biodegradable resin mixed with cells of a particular tissue, as well as coating the cast’s channels with blood vessel cells. On the other hand, since the cells grow, the biodegradable resin should slowly disappear to leave an artificial tissue sample with its own blood vessel network. However, many think more research need on this matter.