Scientists Turn Spinach Leaf into Beating Human Heart Cell

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Researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute havecreated artificial heart tissue with functioning vasculatureby stripping a spinach leaf of its original cells and replacing them with human cells.
The spinach leaf was used to solve a problem faced by biological engineers when creating artificial tissues and organs. Methods such as 3D printing that generally make good copies do not have the…

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March 30, 2017 at 12:54PM