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Scientists turned spinach leaves into beating human heart tissue
Business Insider ^
| March 27th, 2017
| Signe Dean
Posted on 03/27/2017 9:39:24 AM PDT by Ciaphas Cain
Researchers have successfully used spinach leaves to build functioning human heart tissue, complete with veins that can transport blood.
To tackle a chronic shortage of donor organs, scientists have been working on growing various tissues and even whole organs in the lab. But culturing a bunch of cells is only part of the solution - they simply won't thrive without a constant blood supply.
It's notoriously difficult to build a working network of fine blood vessels (also called vasculature), especially when you get down to capillaries, which are only 5 to 10 micrometres wide. Blood vessels transport the oxygen and nutrients that a lab-grown tissue sample needs to grow and function.
Now a team led by scientists from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) have successfully turned a spinach leaf into living heart tissue by using the tiny network of veins you'd already find in a plant.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: medicine; science; spinach
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To: Ciaphas Cain
Popeye was smarter than we think.
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posted on
03/27/2017 9:40:29 AM PDT
by
Rebelbase
To: Ciaphas Cain
That Popeye had it going on with that canned spinach. Who would have thought he knew the secret.
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posted on
03/27/2017 9:40:50 AM PDT
by
eartick
(Been to the line in the sand and liked it, but ready to go again)
To: eartick
My wife could use a heart.
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posted on
03/27/2017 9:41:21 AM PDT
by
DIRTYSECRET
(urope. Why do they put up with this.)
To: Ciaphas Cain
Just wow. Kudos to these brilliant scientists.
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posted on
03/27/2017 9:41:55 AM PDT
by
The Westerner
(Protect the most vulnerable: get the government out of medicine and education!)
To: Ciaphas Cain
Vegans may ultimately decide that they can’t even eat plants.
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posted on
03/27/2017 9:42:05 AM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(Abortion is what slavery was: immoral but not illegal. Not yet.)
To: Ciaphas Cain
The down side are the following side effects:
Wanting to be a pipe smoking sailor, eating spinach and saying, "Ahoy Matey!"
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posted on
03/27/2017 9:42:49 AM PDT
by
Grampa Dave
( The illusion of Trump-is-Hitler has been fully replaced with Trump-is-incompetent meme on 3/24/2017)
To: humblegunner
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03/27/2017 9:44:07 AM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(The "news" networks and papers are bitter, dangerous enemies of the American people.)
To: Ciaphas Cain
This is all well and good. I could possibly benefit from this as well. But right now I think they need to be concentrating on turning spinach into these little guys that cost a lot when purchased from See's.
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posted on
03/27/2017 9:45:34 AM PDT
by
InterceptPoint
(Ted, you finally endorsed. About time.)
To: DIRTYSECRET
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posted on
03/27/2017 9:46:20 AM PDT
by
ColdOne
((I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11~ Best Election Ever!)
To: Lazamataz
I will gladly pay you Tuesday for a pizza (great!) today.
To: eartick
canned spinach, UGH!
They are remaking the SWAMP THING sans Adrienne Barbeau
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posted on
03/27/2017 9:51:06 AM PDT
by
V K Lee
(If all the nations in the world are in debt, where did all the money go?)
To: The Westerner
One of those dudes looks like he will be a candidate for his own research.
Back away from the buffet or the keg.
To: Ciaphas Cain
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posted on
03/27/2017 9:52:46 AM PDT
by
right way right
(May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our one and only true hope.)
To: Ciaphas Cain
Why not do the same with a pig heart and get something that has a chance of being useful?
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posted on
03/27/2017 9:54:08 AM PDT
by
Moonman62
(Make America Great Again!)
To: Ciaphas Cain
To: Grampa Dave
You forgot massive swelling of the forearms.
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posted on
03/27/2017 10:01:01 AM PDT
by
CrazyIvan
(Fidel and Che are together again, and it ain't on a t-shirt.)
To: CrazyIvan
You forgot massive swelling of the forearms.
My daddy always told me I would get those Popeye arms for a different reason.
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posted on
03/27/2017 10:04:48 AM PDT
by
SpinnerWebb
(Winter is coming)
To: Gadsden1st
Hey, leave him alone! Can you imagine how frustrating being an inventor is? If eating gives him comfort, and he’s willing to die for his invention, to each his own.
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posted on
03/27/2017 10:05:51 AM PDT
by
The Westerner
(Protect the most vulnerable: get the government out of medicine and education!)
To: Ciaphas Cain
Can you imagine the looks somebody got from coworkers, when they floated this theory for the first time?
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