For fledgling medical students, slicing into their first cadaver can be an important rite of passage. They often enter the anatomy lab as skittish new trainees and leave it as self-assured future ...

This question originally appeared on Quora. Answer by Laszlo B. Tamas, neurosurgeon: My medical school was McGill in Montreal. We had nice, modern medical science and administrative buildings, but the ...

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 ...

AMES, Iowa – In a recent class session devoted to reviewing the components of a monogastric digestive system, Alexandra Else-Keller reminded an animal science student how to position her fingers as ...

The room is abuzz with conversation, questions and an occasional electric saw. At raised tables, trios of gowned men and women tweeze and scalpel their way through a human pelvis, sinew by sinew.

Participants in Bristol Myers-Squibb Science Horizons Camp at Syracuse University dissect a fetal pig in July 2010. Fayetteville-Manlius High School biology teacher Ben Gnacik (center) assists H.W.

Dinner and a dissection anyone? Would you have the stomach for enjoying a two-course dinner and then watching a human body being cut up? Not only that, but you then put on a surgical gown and get to ...