How to reverse your high blood pressure with food
Rich in potassium, bananas, sweet potatoes and spinach prevent hypertension by balancing levels of salt within the body, researchers from the University of Southern California claim. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
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Spinach frittata
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Spinach dip with mushrooms
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Spinach-stuffed sole
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Spinach dip with mushrooms
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Spinach-stuffed sole
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Morning Break: What Now for Medicaid; New Use for Spinach; Silencers and Hearing
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Growing human hearts: The answer is spinach leaves?
[Image from Worcester Polytechnic Institute]We could soon be using spinach to grow human hearts, thanks to new research from the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Arkansas State University.
One of the problems that researchers have faced is how to create a vascular system that can deliver blood deep into developing tissues. There hasn’t been much success with 3D printing vascular networks to provide the transportation for oxygen, nutrients and other essential molecules that allow for continued tissue growth.
Even though plants and animals transport fluids differently, they have simi...
Source: Mass Device - March 27, 2017 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: Danielle Kirsh Tags: Biotech Research & Development Vascular cardiology Source Type: news
Researchers Turn Spinach Leaf into Beating Heart Tissue
A team of scientists has transformed spinach leaves into beating human heart tissue after first coming up with the idea during their lunch.
The researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts wanted to engineer a solution for widespread organ donor shortage. Knowing it’s difficult to reproduce veins, the group decided to use the system already in place on a spinach leaf by replacing spinach cells with human heart cells, the Washington Post reports.
“To be able to just take something as simple as a spinach leaf, which is an abundant plant, and actually turn that into a tissue that has the potenti...
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WPI Scientists Developing Patch For Diseased Hearts Using Spinach Leaves
WORCESTER(CBS) – Biomedical engineers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute are working on a patch for diseased hearts that uses spinach leaves.
When mixed with human stem cells, the veins in spinach could become heart muscle that pumps blood when the original organ is infected or damaged.
“And so we haven’t actually put blood in there we put dye in there and we put small particles that represent blood cells and those flow right through the leaves,” said biomedical engineering professor Glenn Gaudette.
During the process, the green of the spinach is removed, leaving just the cellulose structure.
Spinach tested as ...
Source: WBZ-TV - Breaking News, Weather and Sports for Boston, Worcester and New Hampshire - March 24, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Health – CBS Boston Tags: Health Local News Syndicated Local Watch Listen Glenn Gaudette Lana Jones Spinach Worcester Worcester Polytechnic Institute Source Type: news
Heart tissue grown on spinach leaves
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 have now successfully turned to plants, culturing beating human heart cells on spinach leaves that were stripped of plant cells. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
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Without Essential Nutrients, A Child’s Body Struggles To Do These Things
When our children get into cars, we make them buckle their seat belts. And when they learn to ride bikes, we teach them to wear helmets. But not everything that has to do with our children’s health and well-being is as easy to see as a helmet or as simple to reach for as a seatbelt.
In countries across the globe, in food deserts here in the U.S. and, even, in many of our homes, children are not getting proper nutrition. And the consequences are tremendous: adequate vitamin and mineral intake is essential for a child’s health and development, particularly in the first 1,000 days of life. An infant or a child wi...
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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. (Source: EurekAlert! - Biology)
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Save Hide And Seek For The Playground: Why Kids Should See Their Veggies
Getting kids to eat veggies through subterfuge — say, spinach smoothies -- sets the bar too low, researchers say. Your child must actually learn to like veggies, weird textures and all. Here's how.(Image credit: Alex Reynolds/NPR) (Source: NPR Health and Science)
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