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Photos: 3D printer creates organs that look and feel like the real thing

By Veronica Combs October 11, 2019, 3:02 PM PDT

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Photos: 3D printer creates organs that look and feel like the real thing

Unboxing the Stratasys 3D printed heart

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Unboxing the Stratasys 3D printed heart

Medical students learn to do many surgical procedures on cadavers. Stratasys wants to replace human organs with synthetic replicas to modernize the teaching process.

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Photos: 3D printer creates organs that look and feel like the real thing

Stratasys 3D printed heart

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Stratasys 3D printed heart

The J750 Digital Anatomy 3D Printer turns out hearts as close to the real organ as a printer can get.

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Stratasys 3D printed heart front

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Stratasys 3D printed heart front

The Digital Anatomy printer can 3D print a synthetic digital twin of a patient’s actual organ.

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Stratasys 3D printed heart back side

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Stratasys 3D printed heart back side

The TissueMatrix used to print this heart has a Shore value of 00, meaning it is about as squishy as a gummy bear. 

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Stratasys 3D printed heart on stand

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Stratasys 3D printed heart on stand

Doctors can upload an MRI to the printer and recreate a patient’s anatomy in a 3D model.

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Photos: 3D printer creates organs that look and feel like the real thing

Stratasys 3D printed heart on stand

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Stratasys 3D printed heart on stand

Printing a standard heart model takes between six and eight hours.

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Photos: 3D printer creates organs that look and feel like the real thing

Stratasys 3D printed heart

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Stratasys 3D printed heart

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.

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