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. Very soon we will have a fully synthetic complete simulated human.
What are such products used for?
Our products are used by every major medical device manufacturer in the world, primarily to replace live animals and human cadavers in design verification and validation studies. In addition, our technology is now being applied to 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, cortical and cancellous bone, vitrous humor, mammary tissue, vaginal mucosa, 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 dielectric properties. This technology is unique, and we have issued and pending multi-national patents on the materials, design methods, and manufacturing processes.
Who do you compete with?
A great many companies manufacture rubber, plastic, metal, and glass anatomical models, medical mannequins, phantoms, and surgical simulators. Our simplest products are 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 technology 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.
