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Using spinach leaf as scaffolding, scientists built a mini heart (2017)
- macawfish 7y agoThis is just magical
- vector_spaces 7y agoThe title needs a (2017).
- dang 7y agoAdded. Thanks!
- dustfinger 7y agoA better title would have been: How plant leaves are inspiring human tissue engineers.
- gus_massa 7y agoIt's better the subtitle: "Using the plant like scaffolding, scientists built a mini version of a working heart, which may one day aid in tissue regeneration." I prefer a modified form: "Using spinach leaf like scaffolding, scientists built a mini version of a working heart"
- libertine 7y agoIn the current media state the title should be: The Popeye Secret - How spinach will be the solution for heart problems!
- zachguo 7y agoIt's a bit disappointing that the fractal tree was not mentioned in the article.
- yohann305 7y agoVery misleading title, there is no heart and no human-compatible tissue. All there is a dry spinach leaf with injected red dye. Excuse my cynicism but it’s on point.
- mogadsheu 7y agoBit of a shame and I agree (unfortunately!) in this case. Considering the funding that likely went into it, I'd hope for something more than this, like the 1000 things the researcher hopefully tried that didn't work out. Otherwise there just isn't much to show for it.
- 0d311 7y agoI actually graduated from WPI at the same time as this research was going on (2017), and I remember discussing this with a few graduate students who worked in the same lab but on other research. All the students in the lab knew the research wasn't particularly exciting but that the research space had a lot of potential. There was a lot of hype on the campus when this article (and I think a few other similar ones) came out and started circulating, but I think it made the students who actually did the research uncomfortable, because it was made clear that their advisor had hyped the research for funding purposes. Academia ¯\_(ツ)_/¯