25-03-2017 11:23 via uk.news.yahoo.com

Scientists turn spinach leaf into working heart tissue

Researchers have managed to turn a spinach leaf into working heart tissue and are on the way to solving the problem of recreating the tiny, branching networks of blood vessels in human tissue.Now, with this breakthrough, it seems turning plants with their delicate veins into human tissue could be the key to delivering via a vascular system into the new tissue.Scientists have managed in the past to create small-scale artificial samples of human tissue, but they have struggled to create it on a la
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