Jelly Thickener Could Help Grow Muscle

A food thickener used in yoghurts and jellies could be used to help make artificial muscle. Nanotechnology graduate Cameron Ferris, and supervisor Dr Marc in het Panhuis, of the University of Wollongong report on their work developing tissue scaffolds in the journal Soft Matter. Tissue engineers use scaffolds to help get cells to grow into the right kind of tissues