Stratasys officials think the new printer will reduce the need to use human cadavers and animals for medical device testing and validation. There could also be a market to assist medical training and surgical preparation at academic health centers.
“We’re giving surgeons a more realistic training environment in no-risk settings. We also anticipate this will enable medical device makers to improve how they bring products to market by performing design verification, validation, usability studies and failure analysis with these new models,” Eyal Miller, Stratasys’ healthcare business unit head, said in a news release.
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