New research suggests that cotton candy may help re-grow human tissue such as bone, skin, or muscle, says MSNBC.

The technique is actually a bit to complicated for me to explain, but it sounds a bit like if one poured candy apple solution over cotton candy to create a complicated network out of the thin interwoven strands and what would be left inside would be an intricate network of blood vessels or skin.

A great concept…but does it work? So far it does in rats, so stay tuned, you may find cotton candy-based blood vessels or skin substitutes coming soon, right out of those crazy whirling machines from county fairs around the country. Now if they could only find a medicinal use for a funnel cake. Just kidding.

Summer Johnson, PhD