Feeding human heart outside the body

Medical researchers in Spain say, humanity is approaching the ability to feed the heart of people outside the body for the needs of overcrowded heart transplant in the world today.

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Doctors have "cultivated" outside and successfully implanted a range of human organs, including trachea, ear, tear duct and arteries, according to The Wall Street Journal.

A heart-raising project in the laboratory - (Photo: University of Minnesota)

Now, they want to recreate the human heart. Researchers in Spain say that although the country has the highest number of organ donors in the world, this figure is only enough to provide about 10% of patients needing heart transplantation nationwide.

Doctor Francisco Fernandez-Aviles at Madrid's Gregorio Maranon Hospital said the lab version of the heart could be available in five to six years.

Francisco Fernandez-Aviles also believes that artificial hearts will be ready for transplant in the next 10 years.

Scientist Doris Taylor, who has successfully raised the rat heart in the University of Minnesota laboratory (USA), thinks this is entirely feasible.

'We opened the door and proved that it could do it. This is no longer the scope of science fiction. It has become a real science, ' said Doris Taylor.