Tucked away on the third floor of the Medical Science II building sits a supply of painted skulls and silicone-hardened lungs. The Plastination Lab, which houses bodies preserved in plastic, features ...

Plastination of human bodies is an expensive and time-consuming process, according to the Institute of Plastination, a German firm that operates the human anatomy exhibitor Body Worlds. When a body is ...

Gunther von Hagens, the creator of the plastination process, brings his exhibit back to Portland with a special focus on the brain in " The mystery and complexity of the human body and its brain are ...

Gunther von Hagens’ BODY WORLDS 3, which opened Friday at the Saint Louis Science Center, offers many sources of fascination – the inner body, the macabre, science, art. It also teaches clear messages ...

This story is from The Pulse, a weekly health and science podcast. Find it on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. When Body Worlds debuted in the U.S. at the California Science ...

A technique used for the long-term preservation of human and animal remains is now being tested on one of Canada's most iconic building materials—the Western red cedar. Plastination, originally ...

Spanning 16,000 square feet, the exhibition features an extraordinary collection of real human specimens—including 20 whole-body plastinates—offering guests an unparalleled journey beneath the skin.

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 ...

In a basement laboratory room of the sprawling University Hospital is a doctor in surgical scrubs and mask, hunched over a leg, working methodically with a scalpel. Three students sit across the room ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Gunther von Hagens, a German anatomist famous for his controversial Body World exhibition displaying plastinated bodies, is now selling human and animal body parts -- even as ...

BODY WORLDS & The Cycle of Life at the Houston Museum of Natural Science delivers a breathtaking encounter with the inner workings of the human body and shows the effects of poor health, good health, ...