There’s a greyhound’s heart, a cat’s spinal cord, a smoker’s lung. A human female torso and head sliced into 1-inch sections from head to waist, completely preserved -- all touchable, teachable. The ...

An anonymous donor has funded a $100K Brain Preservation Prize, paid to the first team(s) to pass this test on a human brain, with a quarter of the prize going to those that first pass the test on a ...

“Body Worlds: The Anatomical Exhibition of Real Human Bodies” drew nearly 800,000 people and almost as many gasps during its 2005 run at Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry. Now, Dr. Gunther von ...

Controversial German artist Gunther von Hagens, known for his displays of preserved human corpses stripped of skin, wants to build a factory in Poland to mass-produce his art, local officials have ...

A proposal to put preserved cadavers, body parts and possibly fetuses on tour is drawing criticism from medical ethicists and religious groups. Bay City businessman Dan Corcoran wants to team up with ...

DALLAS – Stace Owens has no intention of leaving this world when he dies. He plans to stick around for decades or longer, preserved in plastic and displayed in a museum or medical school. The ...