Medical students learn to do many surgical procedures on cadavers. Stratasys wants to replace human organs with synthetic replicas to modernize the teaching process.
The J750 Digital Anatomy 3D Printer turns out hearts as close to the real organ as a printer can get.
The Digital Anatomy printer can 3D print a synthetic digital twin of a patient’s actual organ.
The TissueMatrix used to print this heart has a Shore value of 00, meaning it is about as squishy as a gummy bear.
Doctors can upload an MRI to the printer and recreate a patient’s anatomy in a 3D model.
Printing a standard heart model takes between six and eight hours.
The J750 Digital Anatomy 3D Printer turns out hearts as close to the real organ as a printer can get. Stratasys has developed the new printer along with three new materials and new software to power the whole platform.
Veronica Combs is a fromer senior writer at TechRepublic. For more than 10 years, she has covered technology, healthcare, and business strategy. In addition to her writing and editing expertise, she has managed small and large teams at startups and established companies. She also led AIR Louisville, a three-year digital health project focused on asthma. Veronica also was the editor of MedCity News for three years.
