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Human Heart Cells Grown on Spinach Leaves

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Spinach is known as a super food for its nutritional value, but a new experiment reveals another power of the green leaf. Researchers say they’ve grown beating human heart cells on spinach leaves, using the vascular network of the plant to transport fluids. The finding could eventually lead to being able to grow working human cardiac tissue that could one day be used to replace heart cells damaged by heart attacks. “Plants and animals exploit fundamentally different approaches to...

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