WPI team grows heart tissue on spinach leaves

(Worcester Polytechnic Institute) Researchers face a fundamental challenge as they seek to scale up human tissue regeneration from small lab samples to full-size tissues and organs: how to establish a vascular system that delivers blood deep into the developing tissue. Researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Arkansas State University-Jonesboro have successfully turned to plants, culturing beating human heart cells on spinach leaves that were stripped of plant cells.
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