Gunther von Hagens, inventor of plastination and creator of Body Worlds, has died at 81. Learn about his legacy of preserved ...

Gunther von Hagens, who invented plastination, a method of preserving bodies by replacing their natural fluids with polymers, ...

Born in January 1945 as Gunther Liebchen in Alt-Skalden in German-occupied Poland, he grew up in Greiz, East Germany. At just five days old, his father, who had worked for the SS, uprooted the family ...

Gunther von Hagens preserved human corpses and then hung them out on display ...

Gunther von Hagens, the German anatomist who generated both fascination and revulsion around the globe with his “Body Worlds” ...

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 ...

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 ...

As shock art it's hard to beat but behind the controversial travelling corpse show, Body Worlds, opening in London this week, lies a morbid international trade in cadavers - some believed to be from ...

There’s a greyhound’s heart, a cat’s spinal cord, a smoker’s lung. A human female torso and head sliced into 1-inch sections from head to waist, completely preserved -- all touchable, teachable. The ...

Controversial German artist Gunther von Hagens, known for his displays of preserved human corpses stripped of skin, wants to build a factory in Poland to mass-produce his art, local officials have ...

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 ...

Plastination is an embalming process used to preserve bodies. The process involves dehydrating the body tissue and replacing certain tissues with synthetic materials (like plastics). But don’t worry, ...