Tel Aviv University researchers "printed" the world's first human heart using a patient’s own cells and biological materials.
This is the first time anyone anywhere has successfully engineered and printed an entire heart replete with cells, blood vessels, ventricles and chambers. ~ Professor Tal Dvir of TAU’s School of Molecular Cell Biology and Biotechnology
Their findings were published earlier this month in a study in Advanced Science.
For the research, a biopsy of fatty tissue were processed into a personalized hydrogel that served as the printing “ink.”
The researchers are now planning on culturing the printed hearts in the lab and “teaching them to behave” like hearts, Dvir says. They then plan to transplant the 3D-printed heart in animal models.
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