3D printed babies could help train surgeons: Here’s how

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An Eindhoven University of Technology Ph.D. candidate is using 3D printing to create realistic models of baby skeletons and other organs to help train surgeons.

Mark Thielen created an infant mannequin prototype that had realistic bones and organs. The model had a 3D printed heart with functioning valves and lungs that could breath like real ones and a ribcage with a spine to hold the organs.

“Without 3D printing, this work would have been impossible,” said Thielen in a press release.

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