While a cadaver might set you back $100,000, 3D printing startup Fusetec is creating realistic body parts for a fraction of the cost, as it sets out to disrupt a $7.6 trillion global industry.

“Cadavers are costly and generally in short supply,” Fusetec’s co-founder and chief operating officer John Budgen tells StartupSmart.

“There’s a lot of red tape with one, getting them, and two, maintaining them before they get operated on, and then destroying them.”

Universities typically spend $1.5 million maintaining cadavers, Budgen says, but Fusetec’s highly realistic student models start at about $1,460.

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