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Researchers turned spinach leaves into beating heart tissue

We knew spinach was good for you, but researchers partly funded by NHLBI have taken the power vegetable up a couple of notches. Organ regeneration has faced a major obstacle: establishing a vascular system that delivers blood to the developing tissue. In a study published in Biomaterials, scientists described how they solved that problem using spinach leaves to build functioning heart tissue. 

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