From: Eugene Leitl (Eugene.Leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de)
Date: Thu Jun 28 2001 - 04:29:22 MDT
On Wed, 27 Jun 2001 hal@finney.org wrote:
> I read about this exhibit when it opened, quite controversial. I am
> confused by your description though. Does he take actual organs and
> bodies and replace the water so they turn into plastic? Or does he
> build plastic imitations of bodies? Are these standing bodies with
> their organs on displays real people who have been preserved, or are
> they artificially constructed models?
They're real people's bodies. Plastination substitutes some of the body
fluids with polymerizable monomers.
Of course, while the macroscale structures are well-preserved the
ultrastructure is toast.
-- Eugen* Leitl leitl
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