Karolina Niedzielskaabout 8 years ago

Scientists Use Spinach Leaves to Grow Beating Human Heart Tissue

Scientists in Massachusetts have converted a spinach leaf into a tiny, beating human heart muscle in an experiment that might one day help doctors repair damaged organs. A biomedical research team at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) swapped the leaf’s plant cells for human ones, effectively transforming the plant veins into a delicate blood vessel network. Their work is set to be published in the May 2017 volume of the science journal Biomaterials.