The tissue engineers, as they reported recently in the journal Biomaterials, stripped green spinach leaves of their cells. The spinach turned translucent. The scientists seeded the gaps that the ...

If an overhyped vegetable existed before marketers coined the term superfood – and long before Oprah Winfrey chatted up acai berries with Dr. Oz – look no further than spinach. Popeye t… ...

Spinach Leaf Transformed Into Beating Human Heart Tissue. Using the plant like scaffolding, scientists built a mini version of a working heart, which may one day aid in tissue regeneration.

A team of scientists has transformed spinach leaves into beating human heart tissue after first coming up with the idea during their lunch. The researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in ...

Heart tissue grown on spinach leaves Researchers turn to the vascular system of plants to solve a major bioengineering problem blocking the regeneration of human tissues and organs. Date: March 22 ...

Scientists convert spinach leaves into human heart tissue — that beats. March 27, 2017 More than 8 years ago. Watch: How these spinach leaves might help grow human tissue (Video: ...

They took a spinach leaf and sucked the plant cells out of it. They were left with a flimsy, translucent flap — similar to a piece of skin tissue – that still had the leaf’s network of veins ...

Beating Human Heart Tissue Grown from Spinach Leaves. News. By Laura Geggel published 28 March 2017 When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

You knew that spinach was good for your heart, but researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute are now taking spinach leaves and transform them into human heart tissue — that beats ...

A team from Worcester Polytechnic Institute has grown a piece of heart tissue on a leaf of spinach that beats and sends fluids just like a heart would. Skip to main content. Sections.

Scientists at Massachusetts’s Worcester Polytechnic Institute have reportedly turned a spinach leaf into functioning human heart tissue in a story that truly bends the mind as to what modern ...