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 ...

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 ...

For two years now, exhibitions of human cadavers have been traveling the country, shown in science museums and other spaces. The shows, featuring corpses that have been preserved and solidified ...

A technique used for the long-term preservation of human and animal remains is now being tested on one of Canada's most iconic building materials—the Western red cedar. Plastination, originally ...

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 ...

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 ...