article_snippet: Dr von Hagens went on to form the Institute for Plastination in Heidelberg, Germany in 1993 which made their first showing of plastinated bodies in Japan in 1995, which drew more than three million visitors.
article_snippet: In 1975, von Hagens began to experiment with the preservation of body parts using reactive polymers.
article_snippet: von Hagens said: 'I wondered why the . plastic was poured and then cured around his specimens rather than . pushed into the cells, which would stabilise the specimens from within . and literally allow you to grasp the . plastic.'
article_snippet: By 1982, von Hagens patented the plastination technique which has been adopted in laboratories across the world.