http://www.livescience.com/58445-spinach-turned-into-human-heart-tissue.html

Beating Human Heart Tissue Grown from Spinach Leaves

Makes me think of John Wyndham for some reason.

dv said:

http://www.livescience.com/58445-spinach-turned-into-human-heart-tissue.html

Beating Human Heart Tissue Grown from Spinach Leaves

Spinach leaves can be used as a scaffold for beating human heart cells, a new study finds. In several experiments, scientists grew beating human heart cells on spinach leaves by perfusing them with a detergent solution, which stripped them of their plant cells.

Interesting, in previous experiments, a human heart was grown on a scaffold made by perfusing a different human heart with a detergent solution. why? Because the scaffold generates no immune reaction, and can be populated by cells of the recipient’s body.

Making a scaffold from spinach would have limited applications.

In addition, the researchers said they think they could deliver blood and oxygen to developing tissues by pouring fluids through the spinach leaves’ veins. [Spinach Leaf Transformed into Beating Heart Tissue.

interesting

mollwollfumble said:

Making a scaffold from spinach would have limited applications.

mollwollfumble said:

dv said:

http://www.livescience.com/58445-spinach-turned-into-human-heart-tissue.html

Beating Human Heart Tissue Grown from Spinach Leaves

Spinach leaves can be used as a scaffold for beating human heart cells, a new study finds. In several experiments, scientists grew beating human heart cells on spinach leaves by perfusing them with a detergent solution, which stripped them of their plant cells.

Interesting, in previous experiments, a human heart was grown on a scaffold made by perfusing a different human heart with a detergent solution. why? Because the scaffold generates no immune reaction, and can be populated by cells of the recipient’s body.

Making a scaffold from spinach would have limited applications.

You could be right but to play devil’s advocate …

Healthy human heart scaffolds could be in limited supply: basically you need to wait until a young person dies.

Whereas spinach could be pretty abundant.

reverse engineering plants and applying to humans

so is this some kind of cross fauna / flora parasitical behavior ?

interesting if it is

very Day of the Triffids

Isn’t that what Popeye did?

roughbarked said:

Isn’t that what Popeye did?

Come to think of it I suppose we all do, to some extent. At least those of us that eat spinach.