To create artificial tissue with functioning vasculature, tissue engineers looked no further than their salad bowls. By peeling away the cells from a spinach leaf and seeding the cellulose matrix left ...

A team of scientists has transformed spinach leaves into beating heart tissue, and it may be a way to solve the lack of organ donors. A team of scientists has transformed spinach leaves into beating ...

Popeye was fond of cramming cans of spinach to beef up his cartoon biceps. Now scientists say the leafy green really could help build a real-world muscle, only this time, it's the human heart. A team ...

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Scientists inMassachusetts have converted a spinach leaf into a tiny, beating human heart muscle in an eerie experiment that might one day help doctors repair damaged organs. A biomedical research ...

Researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute have found a way to grow beating human heart cells on spinach leaves, a technique that could help treat disease or traumatic injury. Current ...

What do spinach leaves and human tissue have in common? Veins. Lots and lots of veins. That led researchers to try to graft human cells onto the leaves in hopes of creating artificial heart tissue.

Through a series of experiments, a team of researchers have grown beating human heart cells on spinach leaves. Current bioengineering techniques, like 3-D printing, can't build the intricate, ...

On the surface, plants and animals couldn't be more different. However, as researchers at Worcester Polytechnic University (WPU) have discovered, they also share surprising similarities in their ...