Spinach Leaf Transformed Into Beating Human Heart Tissue

Shariqua Ahmed
Tue, 29 Aug 2017 14:00:44 -0700

Innovations like 3-D printing have enabled scientists to make significant progress in manufacturing various bioengineered organs and tissues. However, the one organ that has been hard to replicate is the human heart. That’s because current technology is unable to replicate the network of tiny blood vessels that transport oxygen inside a tissue as dense as the human heart muscle.