An anonymous donor has funded a $100K Brain Preservation Prize, paid to the first team(s) to pass this test on a human brain, with a quarter of the prize going to those that first pass the test on a ...

DALLAS – Stace Owens has no intention of leaving this world when he dies. He plans to stick around for decades or longer, preserved in plastic and displayed in a museum or medical school. The ...

Erlyne Toney-Alvarez had planned to be cremated when she died. Simple. Inexpensive. Graves, she said, are a waste of land occupied by the dead. Then she saw the intricately plastinated bodies at a ...

Tucked away on the third floor of the Medical Science II building sits a supply of painted skulls and silicone-hardened lungs. The Plastination Lab, which houses bodies preserved in plastic, features ...

Russian police have charged a senior Siberian pathologist after investigating for a year how 56 corpses ended up in Germany as part of Gunter von Hagens's project to preserve human bodies as works of ...

Sometimes, after a long week, all a person really wants to do is read about alternative burial methods, am I right? If, like me, you think that regular funeral plans are way too boring, and you want ...

German professor Gunther von Hagens has carried out the first public post-mortem in the UK since the 1830s, despite a government warning it is illegal. BBC News Online looks at the man behind the ...