Even if you think you learned everything that you needed to know way back in biology class, everyone has knowledge gaps. And ...

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 ...

A broken penis is many a man’s worst nightmare. The gruesome reality of penile injuries has been revealed in a new educational video on YouTube from the Institute of Human Anatomy, a lab specialized ...

Bodies donated to science have been hacked up and sold on the black market across the country by morgue workers and entrepreneurs.allenswart/Getty Images Harvard Medical School's former morgue manager ...

I recently learned that NASA has made some limited use of human cadavers in testing during the development of the Orion spacecraft. Now, on first blush, this might sound somewhat macabre. In fact, it ...

Cadavers have been used in medical training for centuries, and dissections are a rite of passage for first-year students in medical school. Traditionally, the cadavers being dissected were real human ...

Five patients in the United Kingdom have developed Alzheimer’s disease that appears to be the result of contaminated injections they received as children decades ago, according to a new study that ...

I will never forget stepping into the cadaver lab for the first time. As the doors swung open, a sharp, sour wave of formaldehyde hit me and made my stomach churn. I pulled my thin polyester scrub ...

Glen Cove EMS workers will receive specialized training this fall with actual human cadavers — a rare opportunity for volunteer first responders. The Glen Cove City Council authorized Mayor Pamela ...

NEW CONCORD − The human body is a host of complex systems, and portraying the way they interact with each other in the body cavity can be a challenge with plastic models and pictures in a book.