ARTIFICIAL ORGANS: WE’RE ENTERING AN ERA WHERE TRANSPLANTS ARE OBSOLETE I THINK WITHIN TEN YEARS WE WON'T SEE ANY MORE HEART TRANSPLANTS. No More Heart Transplants Around the world, lists of patients in need of an organ transplant are often longer than the lists of those willing (and able) to donate — in part because some of the most in- demand organs for transplant can only be donated after a person has died. By way of example, recent data from the showed that the number of patients waiting for a heart transplant in the United Kingdom has grown by 162 percent in the last ten years. British Heart Foundation (BHF) Now, 50 years after the first successful heart transplant, experts believe we may be nearing an era where organ transplantation will no longer be necessary. “I think within ten years we won’t see any more heart transplants, except for people with congenital heart damage , where only a new heart will do,” Stephen Westaby, from the John Radcliffe Hospital in
