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Have a lot of experience in taking cells out of the heart, believing the scaffold behind. we thought, wouldn't it be interesting if we could do that with plants? one day we were having lunch and there was some spinach there and we picked up a piece of spinach and we looked at it and said, i like this vane structure. let's give it a shot. my graduate student tried it and it worked. >> jenna: you're actually eating lunch and you're like, spinach, heart tissue. when you look back on that, that's amazing. what do you think? >> we like to try to develop a mindset in our students and get them to thi...

The first time she has been able to go home now that she has had the surgery. but ideally, if things go well for her, does it mean in the future that we could use stem cells for otherred b other bodyd people could survive diseases they didn't used to be able to? >> absolutely. this is the goal of all sipetists to work on tissue eng nearing. effort made in effort, liver, bone, cartilage. my lab focus on tissue engineer for children with problems or that will require large surgery to remove so much intestine they can't eat. i expect to see the advances in this decade. >> clayton: great work. tha...