Over the centuries, dissecting the human body has evolved from a criminal offense to a vehicle of mass entertainment to an initiation rite. In the Middle Ages, human dissections were forbidden. In ...

Ever since Charles Darwin made his way to the Galapagos, we’ve heard a lot about that fateful moment when some previously water-bound creature pulled itself up from the slowly receding seas, took a ...

iPads in hand (carefully sealed in Ziploc bags), students at New York University's School of Medicine are taking "Anatomy 2.0." Kasia Cieplak-Mayr von Baldegg is the former executive producer and ...

The class began playfully enough, with instructor Jennifer Hellier kneading a ball of light brown clay and rolling it between the palms of her hands. But then, as she and four college students ...

What people don't know about their bodies could fill a book. Hoping to make that book a little shorter is "Bodies Revealed," an exhibit currently in Sacramento. "Bodies Revealed" features real human ...

SOUTH SIOUX CITY, Neb. (KTIV) - Did you know a pumpkin makes for a great human anatomy lesson? “You can make a lot of things anatomy out of many different types of things and pumpkins are such an easy ...

While instructing medical students in anatomy, the great Renaissance physician Andreus Vesalius was in the habit of sketching muscles and nerves on the dissecting table. Like his forebears, he ...

NORTHGLENN —The classroom where Lori Egan teaches Northglenn High School students about the human body is decorated with dozens of virtually identical, table-size skeleton models covered in various ...