Each year, students with a passion to learn more about the human body can join the advanced human anatomy dissection team. The members of the dissection team meet each Friday to dissect human cadavers ...

Every Friday afternoon, 60 students cram into three laboratory spaces. Those labs have a distinct smell: ethanol and other chemicals, preserving four human cadavers. More than half of the 60 students ...

Daniela Krahe likely will never know the tall gentleman’s name. He was dead when they met, so she didn’t get the chance to ask. She’ll never know where the man grew up or whether he had siblings. She ...

With just the tip of her finger, Charlotte Coughlin sliced through the cadaver’s abdomen, revealing his liver, kidneys and stomach. From there, the senior at Lincoln Northwest High School had the ...

Around a thousand people are currently on the list as donors for Queen’s University’s Body Donation Programme, which reopened ...

Science writer Mary Roach chronicles both the history and the latest science of body part replacement in her new book. She ...

In researching her latest book, Mary Roach came to believe that “even the simplest part of the human body defies efforts to ...

A woman who had a portion of her leg removed after her death appears to have died of natural causes, the Washoe County Medical Examiner's Office said Wednesday. The medical examiner's office said it ...