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This video was recorded at the Institute for Plastination in Heidelberg, Germany, in front of an international audience of body donors and anatomy students.

All bodies dissected were formally donated to the Institute and the donors consented to their remains being used for educational purposes.

Plastination

Plastination is a technique or process used in anatomy to preserve bodies or body parts, first developed by Gunther von Hagens in 1977. The water and fat are replaced by certain plastics, yielding specimens that can be touched, do not smell or decay, and even retain most properties of the original sample.

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The official website of von Hagens plastination is this.

Watch this amazing video on plastination:

(I would like to thank my friend Anestis Divanoglou, PT that introduced me to this subject).

The virtual dissection table

Onstage at TED2012, Jack Choi demonstrates a powerful tool for training medical students: a stretcher-sized multi-touch screen of the human body that lets you explore, dissect and understand the body's parts and systems.

Jack is the CEO of Anatomage, a company specializing on 3D medical technology.