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03-26-2017, 09:18 PM
These scientists turned spinach leaves into beating heart tissue
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Popeye was fond of cramming cans of spinach to beef up his cartoon biceps. **w scientists say the leafy green really could help build a real-world muscle, only this time, it's the human heart.
A team of U.S. researchers found a way (https://www.wpi.edu/news/wpi-team-grows-heart-tissue-spinach-leaves) to use the veins of the spinach leaf to build a miniature version of a beating heart muscle.
Their discoveries offer a potential solution a major challenge confronting biomedical engineers: how to repair and regenerate damaged organs and tissues.*
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If proven to work, scientists could use the spinach treatment to grow layers of healthy heart muscle to treat heart attack patients, the group said in a proof-of-concept study (http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0142961217300856?via=sd) published this month in the journal Biomaterials. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/03/26/scientists-spinach-heart-tissue-study/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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Popeye was fond of cramming cans of spinach to beef up his cartoon biceps. **w scientists say the leafy green really could help build a real-world muscle, only this time, it's the human heart.
A team of U.S. researchers found a way (https://www.wpi.edu/news/wpi-team-grows-heart-tissue-spinach-leaves) to use the veins of the spinach leaf to build a miniature version of a beating heart muscle.
Their discoveries offer a potential solution a major challenge confronting biomedical engineers: how to repair and regenerate damaged organs and tissues.*
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If proven to work, scientists could use the spinach treatment to grow layers of healthy heart muscle to treat heart attack patients, the group said in a proof-of-concept study (http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0142961217300856?via=sd) published this month in the journal Biomaterials. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/03/26/scientists-spinach-heart-tissue-study/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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