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 ...

Joshua Lopez gently peels transparent covering from a metal tray in his lab. His actions are fluid, like he's undoing gift-wrap he plans to reuse. He has good reason to be careful: Inside the plastic ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Tucked away on the third floor of the Medical Science II building sits a supply of painted skulls ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook In a basement laboratory room of the sprawling University Hospital is a doctor in surgical scrubs ...

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BERLIN - A permanent museum showing preserved corpses stripped of skin to reveal the complexity of the human body opens in Berlin on Wednesday. The brainchild of German anatomist Gunther von Hagens ...

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, ...

MILWAUKEE (WITI) -- Tickets are now on sale for BODY WORLDS & The Cycle of Life, the groundbreaking anatomical exhibition that will open at the Milwaukee Public Museum on February 7, 2014. This new ...