To many a bright-eyed first year medical student, there’s one experience that marks a real turning point or ‘rite of passage’ into the medical field. That moment when textbook studies leave the stage, ...

This disembodied heart, beating on its own in a cinderblock-walled University of ... Medtronic owns an exclusive licensing agreement to use the lab. Since 1997, ...

The anatomy lab is sacred space. “I don’t want people to think that simple curiosity is enough to get you in here, because that is not why people donate their bodies,” Laywell said.

Using white card stock, scissors and some glue, Horst Kiechle created an anatomically-correct model of the human torso with removable organs. Now you can too!

Warning: this article includes descriptions from a human anatomy lab. ... My thoughts drifted to my grandpa, whose death from COVID-19 had left a profound void in my heart.

Human organoids provide researchers with unprecedented opportunities, and the findings could lead to drug breakthroughs that may not otherwise happen. For example, the tiny heart model is critical ...