Frequently Asked Questions
What does SynDaver™ Labs do?
SynDaver™ Labs designs and manufactures the world's most sophisticated, complex, and realistic synthetic human tissues and body parts. Our technology represents the only truly viable live tissue replacement on the market.
What are such products used for?
Our products are now used by every major medical device manufacturer in the world to replace live animals and human cadavers in design verification and validation studies. In addition, our technology is now also being used in surgical simulation and clinical training applications as well as the development of new weapons and armor systems.
What are these products made of?
Just like living tissue our products are made from water, fibers, and salts. Our SynTissue™ brand synthetic human tissue library now includes more than 50 discrete materials, including skeletal and cardiac muscle, arterial and venous intima, media, and adventitia, subcutaneous fat, skin, fascia, tendon, cartilage, and many other materials. These analogs are experimentally designed on the basis of tests performed on living human and animal tissue to mimic a range of properties including modulus, strength, penetration resistance, density, coefficient of friction, and impedance. This technology is unique, and we have issued and pending multi-national patents on the materials, designs, and manufacturing methods.
Who do you compete with?
We do not have any direct competition. However, a great many companies manufacture plastic and rubber anatomical models, medical mannequins, phantoms, and surgical simulators. In terms of anatomical fidelity and live tissue realism our simplest products are already generations beyond the best of these.
Where is your technology going next?
We are developing a low-cost synthetic human body that will be a universal platform for medical device testing, clinical training and surgical simulation, and military product development. This platform will be open-sourced to industry.
Does your company create custom models?
We can replicate any portion of the human body in sub-millimeter detail, including a wide variety of disease states. These body parts may be based either on engineering specifications or images (CT, MRI, etc) of actual patient anatomy.
