so that the human tissue grew on the spinach scaffolding and surrounded the tiny veins. Once they had transformed the spinach leaf into a sort of mini heart, the team sent fluids and microbeads ...

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 ...

Although spinach leaves have many veins, making them a well-suited scaffold for heart tissue, other plans show promise for other medical uses. Namely, the "cylindrical, hollow structure of the ...

By peeling away the cells from a spinach leaf and seeding the cellulose matrix left behind with heart cells, researchers were able to create a beating sheet of human heart tissue—complete with a ...

The result? A tissue that mimics the heart muscle, replete with veins and arteries. Along with spinach leaves, the team also removed cells from parsley, sweet wormwood (an herb) and hairy roots of ...

In order to grow living human heart cells on leaves ... which might pave the way for other specialized tissue regeneration studies. "The spinach leaf might be better suited for a highly ...

stripped green spinach leaves of their cells. The spinach turned translucent. The scientists seeded the gaps that the plant cells left behind with human heart tissue. Heart cells, in clusters ...

However, as Ben Guarino writes for The Washington Post, researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute might have a solution: use spinach leaves as the backbone for the heart tissue. The study ...

A video of the experiment shows the spinach heart pumping like a real ... The team at WPI hopes that one day, human tissue built out of spinach leaves could be implanted into patients with damaged ...

but scientists at Worcester Polytechnic Institute are actually trying to turn spinach into heart tissue. Using a process that strips the cells from plants, researchers turned the leafy green into ...

Researchers believe the study can open doors to use spinach leaves to grow healthy heart tissue for those who have suffered heart attacks. Check out a video presentation of the research below.

To test their theory, the researchers stripped a bunch of spinach leaves of their cells ... could help deliver oxygen to damaged tissue in victims of heart attacks or other kinds of cardiac ...