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 ...

Only Slate Plus members can gift Slate stories. Become a member to share 10 free articles a month. Cadavers have been used in medical training for centuries, and dissections are a rite of passage for ...

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 ...

Step into RIT’s Anatomical Studies Lab and experience anatomy in its most authentic form. Formerly called the Cadaver Lab, the Anatomical Studies Lab is designed to give undergraduate students a rare, ...

Thousands of fitness professionals and massage therapists have participated in cadaver workshops. They say it makes them more effective at their jobs. Students dissecting a donor body at a workshop in ...

Small talk at an exercise class led one reporter to explore why fitness professionals are seeking out cadaver workshops. By Danielle Friedman Danielle Friedman is a freelance journalist and a regular ...

Alexandra Wuopio, a first-year medical student at UNLV’s Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine, recently spent days of intense study huddled with several classmates and one other person — someone none of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. These Georgetown University medical students used donated cadavers in their anatomy class in 2011. Bill O'Leary/The Washington ...

New technologies have emerged for teaching anatomy to medical students, from full-size replica human models to virtual reality programs. But training with cadavers -- called donor dissection -- ...

Imagine the game "Operation" on steroids. The 8-foot Anatomage tables in the Health Sciences virtual reality lab at Jacksonville University provide doctoral occupational therapy students with a ...

The NCAA Track and Field Championships took place last Wednesday at Hayward Field as redshirt freshman Ben Smith came out on top in the men’s... TrackTown USA got its headliner last weekend as the ...

The question is not whether a cadaver deserves respect. That answer is obvious. The deeper question is why any student could ...