article_snippet: Researchers are making huge strides in printing organs using living cells and are expected to be able to print  human tissues such as a heart in less than a decade.
article_snippet: 3D printers ultimate goal is to create a new heart for a patient using 3D printers own cells that could be transplanted, but experts say it could be years or decades before such operations are regularly performed.
article_snippet: The finished product would be called the ‘bioficial heart’ - a blend of the natural and artificial.
article_snippet: The heart may be built from cells taken from the patient's fat.
article_snippet: Patients in the operating theatre would have some fat tissue removed and regenerative cells isolated.
article_snippet: regenerative cells would then be mixed with solutions and placed in the bioprinter, which prints the heart.
article_snippet: The new organ would then be transplanted in another operation.