The Medicine of the Future Begins Today: Israeli Scientists Print Heart on a 3D Printer

Israeli scientists have made another breakthrough in medicine — this week, for the first time in history, a living heart has been printed on a 3D printer. To create the tiny heart, cells and biomaterial from the patient were used. As part of the current project, several dozen organs have already been printed. Printing each of them takes about three and a half hours.

The scientists plan to transplant the heart into animals. Only in this way can the full functionality and operability of the created organ be tested. Transplants will be performed within the next year. Professor Tal Dvir, who is the scientific leader of the project, believes that in just 10 years, medicine will be ready to transplant a heart printed on a 3D printer into a human. The heart will not be rejected by the patient's immune system, as it will be created from their own tissues. The most important task today is to create the tiniest blood vessels.

This, without exaggeration, revolutionary achievement has opened the doors to the medicine of the future, where the creation of any organ will cease to be something fantastic, and patients will not have to wait for years for a donor and take medications to prevent rejection. Scientists believe that by 2030, any organs will be printed right in the hospital, using the tissues of the person in need of a transplant.