Sunday, 28 June 2009

New Technology Allows Parents To Hold A Life-Size Model Of Their Unborn Child

It's a defining moment in a parent's life: Seeing their unborn child's image on an ultrasound for the first time. Now pregnant women could have the chance to hold a life-size model of their unborn baby.


Brazilian student Jorge Lopes has pioneered the conversion of data from ultrasound and MRI scans into life-size plaster models of living embryos using a method called rapid prototyping.

(thanks Cora)

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