By 2025, the first fully artificial human heart could be created, offering a solution to the global shortage of donor organs and opening new possibilities for life extension through the replacement of damaged organs with custom-made ones.
This prediction is part of Saxo Bank’s annual “Shocking Forecasts.” Each year, Saxo Bank publishes a list of unlikely but potentially impactful events that could influence global developments. For 2025, one of the forecasts is the creation of the first functional human heart using 3D bioprinting technology.
In 2025, researchers will achieve an unprecedented scientific breakthrough and successfully print a working human heart using advanced 3D bioprinting technologies, the bank’s analysts state.
After being printed, the heart will be placed in a specialized bioreactor that mimics the physiological conditions of the human body to complete its “maturation” process. Once ready, the heart will be transplanted into a pig for testing.
Experts believe this technology, tailored to match the DNA of individual patients, could resolve the global shortage of donor organs. Moreover, it paves the way for life extension by enabling the replacement of damaged organs with custom-made ones.
