Click image for larger photo. The company opened its doors 14 years ago without access to raw materials. Use of bodies taboo in some cultures, encouraged in others The two graphics below require the Adobe Acrobat Reader plugin or application . Tissue such as skin and bone generally is removed from cadavers, processed and transplanted, often into several recipients weeks or months after the donor's death. An organization that recovers corneas, skin, bone and other tissue from cadavers for human transplantation.
Some tissue banks process and distribute the tissue they receive.
Others remove tissue from cadavers and send it to for-profit companies for processing. The process of taking skin, bone, heart valves, veins and organs from the body. The Orange County Register American businesses make hundreds of millions of dollars selling products crafted from donated human bodies, even though it is illegal to profit from cadaver parts, an Orange County Register investigation found. Dentists use ground bone about 200,000 times a year to treat their patients. Glossy catalogs advertise 650 products made from body parts.