Sometimes, after a long week, all a person really wants to do is read about alternative burial methods, am I right? If, like me, you think that regular funeral plans are way too boring, and you want ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...