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by Caroline Haskins


Dec 14 2018, 11:45am
‘Marie’ Is the First Life-Sized, 3D-Printed Human Body
Marie—a five-foot-one, fifteen-pound 3D printed body—could be used to help create better radiation treatments for 

Meet Marie, the very first life-sized 3D-printed human body made from bioplastic, developed by LSU engineering student Meagan Moore to test real-time radiation exposure and figure out optimal radiation therapy dosing for treating conditions like cancer.

According to an LSU press release, Marie is five-foot-one-inch tall and weighs 15 pounds. She also has a detachable head, and a 36-gallon water storage capacity for up to eight hours.
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Also, Marie is also a lovely shade of purple. (“Purple was on sale,” Moore said in a press release.)

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/yw7kzv/marie-is-the-first-life-sized-3d-printed-human-body

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Re: ‘Marie’ Is the First Life-Sized, 3D-Printed Human Body
« Reply #1 on: January 07, 2019, 04:53:34 pm »
Here is hoping their dreams come true on this one. IF they manage to get the bugs worked out,they will be able to do stuff like create and test thinks like artificial kidneys in the artificial human body.

Not to mention artificial arms and legs.
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Re: ‘Marie’ Is the First Life-Sized, 3D-Printed Human Body
« Reply #2 on: January 07, 2019, 06:03:16 pm »
I am a big 3d printing enthusiast (have three 3d printers of my own). Amazing how the the uses for this technology continue to grow.

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Re: ‘Marie’ Is the First Life-Sized, 3D-Printed Human Body
« Reply #3 on: January 07, 2019, 06:44:04 pm »
Can it go to the kitchen and make me a sammitch?
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Re: ‘Marie’ Is the First Life-Sized, 3D-Printed Human Body
« Reply #4 on: January 07, 2019, 08:08:50 pm »
Can it go to the kitchen and make me a sammitch?
Well they did say she has a detachable head.