Spinach Leaf Transformed into Beating Human Heart Tissue

[rhapsodic]

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/03/human-heart-spinach-leaf-medicine-science/

[pdabbadabba]

This is an impressive achievement, but the headline is way off. The leaf was not transformed into 'heart tissue' and was not 'beating.'

Instead, the researchers appear to have stripped a leaf down to its cellulose structure and grown human cells on top of it to demonstrate a way of using a plant's vascular system to replace the vascular system in human tissue.

[thecity2 → pdabbadabba]

Yeah, but I can see how it makes great headlines and helps them get grant money!

[Diggsey]

Spinach Leaf was not transformed into "beating human heart tissue", however impressive the development.

[vpribish]

nat geo is a sad shadow of its former self, more of a buzz-feed/reader's digest of nostalgic, creaky, clickbait