Satava's program will start modestly, however, with the modeling of a pig's heart. Researchers, under 18-month grants from Darpa, will scan the heart and create a mini-holomer from those scans.
Then, scientists will run simulations on the virtual heart to see how it reacts to injuries: how long it takes to die, essentially. Once they're reasonably sure their electronic organ is lifelike, researchers will hurt the real pig -- real bad.
Shrapnel will be thrust into the pig. If the holomer is accurate, the living, beating heart will die, exactly like the virtual one did.