In the nearest future people will be able to meet the century with the bodies of fifty. Scientists believe that babies born today in the UK will be long-lived due to high living standards and new developments in medicine. Scientists are going to grow patients' bodies for their retirement, providing a replacement hips, knees, heart valves.
Over 30-50 years the body can be fully upgraded. Scientists from the University of Biomedical Engineering have already created a graft joint, capable of serving people over 20 years. They have also discovered a unique technology that allows the body to grow itself as renew. Such an approach would circumvent the problem of rejection of organs.
Already, the scientists transplant tissue to grow new heart valves; expect to create artificial ligaments and tendons, work to create
blood vessels, and develop techniques for tissue transplantation in burns. They use a shell from another compatible organ, putting it in the body, where the form is filled with the necessary cells. Tests carried out on 40 patients, already shown promising results.