A team of experts has claimed they will be able to make whole hearts for use in transplant surgery using the recipients’ cells within a decade.

Dr Stuart Williams claims he and his colleagues have already created a coronary artery and that they have 3D printed some of the small blood vessels in the heart.

‘America put a man on the Moon in less than a decade. I said a full decade to provide some wiggle room,’ Dr Williams, from the University of Louisville, told Wired.co.uk