{"id":18594,"date":"2018-11-13T12:47:24","date_gmt":"2018-11-13T12:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/strammer.com\/?p=18594"},"modified":"2018-11-13T12:47:24","modified_gmt":"2018-11-13T12:47:24","slug":"creating-heart-tissue-using-spinach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/strammer.com\/es\/creating-heart-tissue-using-spinach\/","title":{"rendered":"Spinach Heart Tissue"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-fullwidth-1  fusion-parallax-none nonhundred-percent-fullwidth\" style=\"border-bottom-width: 0px;border-top-width: 0px;border-bottom-style: solid;border-top-style: solid;padding-bottom:20px;padding-top:20px;padding-left:;padding-right:;\"><style type=\"text\/css\" scoped=\"scoped\">.fusion-fullwidth-1 {\r\n                            padding-left: px !important;\r\n                            padding-right: px !important;\r\n                        }<\/style><div class=\"fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-title title fusion-title-center fusion-title-size-one\" style=\"margin-bottom:20px;\"><div class=\"title-sep-container title-sep-container-left\"><div class=\"title-sep sep-double sep-solid\" style=\"border-color:#5f80a0;\"><\/div><\/div><h1 class=\"title-heading-center\"><span style=\"color: #5f80a0;\">Scientist Are Creating Heart Tissue Using Spinach <\/span><\/h1><div class=\"title-sep-container title-sep-container-right\"><div class=\"title-sep sep-double sep-solid\" style=\"border-color:#5f80a0;\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-sep-clear\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep sep-none\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-top:;\"><\/div><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Scientists from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) have discovered a way to <strong>build working human heart tissue using spinach<\/strong>. This could potentially solve a long-standing problem in efforts to repair <strong>damaged organs<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Because blood vessels are tiny, delicate and thin, it has been very difficult to make synthetic organs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Joshua Gershlak, a graduate student at WPI comments, \u201cThe main limiting factor for tissue engineering is the <strong>lack of a vascular network<\/strong>. Without that vascular network, you get a lot of <strong>tissue death<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Since leaves have a branching network of thin veins that transfer water and nutrients to its cells, scientist have been able to use their veins to <strong>replicate how blood moves through human tissue<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By removing the plant cells, it leaves behind a frame made of cellulose which is then pumped with a blood-like liquid. This could <strong>solve a host of problems<\/strong> when it comes to tissue engineering, thus,<strong> helping treat diseases<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Co-author of the study Glenn Gaudette says, \u201cWe have a lot more work to do, but so far this is very <strong>promising<\/strong>,\u201d.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fusion-sep-clear\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep sep-none\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-top:;\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-video fusion-youtube\" style=\"max-width:1200px;max-height:600px;\"><div class=\"video-shortcode\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oDSUqoGFHz8?wmode=transparent&autoplay=0\" width=\"1200\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-sep-clear\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep sep-none\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-top:;margin-bottom:20px;\"><\/div><p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">References<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\">The National Geographic. (<a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/2017\/03\/human-heart-spinach-leaf-medicine-science\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/2017\/03\/human-heart-spinach-leaf-medicine-science\/<\/a>). March 25, 2017. Delaney Ross. Spinach Leaf Transformed Into Beating Human Heart Tissue.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\">Time. (<a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/4713700\/spinach-leaf-heart-tissue\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/time.com\/4713700\/spinach-leaf-heart-tissue\/<\/a>). March 27, 2017. Julia Zorthian. Researchers Turn Spinach Leaf into Beating Heart Tissue.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":18596,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","myguten_meta_block_field":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/strammer.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/strammer.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/strammer.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strammer.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strammer.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/strammer.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strammer.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/strammer.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strammer.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strammer.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}