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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Although “Body Worlds” -- an anatomical exhibition of corpses and body parts preserved in lifelike poses through a process called plastination -- drew record crowds during its recent engagement at 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 ...

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 ...