The plastination process involves replacing the natural body fluids with synthetic materials such as silicone rubber, epoxy resin or polyester.
BBC: NEWS | Health | Preserved body slice on display
The exhibit is a very thin slice of a human body which has been preserved using Von Hagens' pioneering plastination procedure.
Twenty million people world-wide have visited Von Hagens' plastination exhibition, Body Worlds.
Over the years, he's been working on a technique called "plastination" that replaces the water and fat inside a body's tissues with polymers -- sticky, hard-drying plastics.
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