Question

Why would spinach leaves be helpful to replace damaged heart tissue? State your answer as a claim. Support your claim with evidence from the article. Think about what you read about blood vessels in the heart, then explain how the evidence supports your claim. Your new response

Answer 1

Answer:

Spinach leaves would be helpful to replace damaged heart tissue because they can replace the damaged blood vessels with the ones that the leaves have.

Explanation:

According to this article, scientists can use spinach leaves to replace the damaged heart tissue by extracting the branching network of the leaves, which is the one that distributes water and nutrients in the leave, we can say that they have the same function as blood vessels in our body.  With this network of thin vessels, which is very hard to reproduce with a 3D printer, scientists bathed the structure in human cells that can grow around it since they would be nourished by it. As a result, the tissue will grow from this. The goal is to replace damaged tissue using leaves, this has not been successfully done yet, but scientists have made improvements in this area.