Examining the dark history of anatomical dissection through the centuries—and why the need for study on human donors is as vital as it’s ever been.

For 150 years, 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit was thought to be the average body temperature for a healthy human being. But that number is wrong. But for at least the past two decades, researchers have ...

Darwin’s spirit lives on in everything from the Human Genome Project to medicine to conservation biology–the three topics I covered in my post on Friday. It also lives on in brain scans. While ...

Bristle worms have protrusions that act like a 3D printer, helping us to understand how cells regenerate. Most people will ...

National Geographic was waiting for Susan Potter to die. So was Dr. Victor Spitzer, director of the Center for Human Simulation at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. And so was ...

Roughly 18 years ago, a woman named Susan Potter asked to donate her body to science when she died. Now, she lives on as the highest-resolution digital cadaver that exists to date. Potter’s ...