I've done about 15 actual human body dissections as part of my ongoing professional training as an anatomist. You can become a bit desensitised to it, although people ask, "How do you put up with the ...

So-called resurrectionists pilfered graves for corpses and trundled them off to hospitals. An outraged public occasionally ...

Before starting her first dissection, Katie Hopkins took the time to observe every feature of the hand she was about to work on. Realizing that she would be the last person to see the donor’s ...

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 ...

Jaipur: The National Institute of Ayurveda (NIA) here has introduced a "virtual dissection" method for training its students in human anatomy. The institute has also started a similar simulation for ...