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Roberta Corson recalled her father’s dissection lab as a happy place. Her father, David L. Bassett, was an expert in anatomy and dissection at the University of Washington. For more than 17 years, he was engaged in creating what has been called the most painstaking and detailed set of images of the human body, inside and out, ever produced. In 3-D. Working closely with William Gruber, the inventor of the View-Master, the three-dimensional viewing system that GAF Corporation popularized as a toy in the 1960s, Dr. Bassett created the 25-volume “Stereoscopic Atlas of Human Anatomy” in 1962. It included some...

Citing her family history, specifically her grandfather, who was a factory worker from Scranton, Pa., Clinton said she didn't think her family or the people of Pennsylvania reached for religion out of frustration with Washington. "I think that is a fundamental sort of misunderstanding of the role of religion and faith in times that are bad," Clitnon said.

San Luis Obispo, Calif. (AP) -- Animal rights activists want San Luis Obispo High School to end anatomy class cat dissections. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals sent a letter to the school asking for a halt to cat dissections.

NEW YORK, March 21 (UPI) -- A U.S. study says injuries to the part of the brain that generates emotions can change the way people make moral judgments in life or death situations. The study, which appears Thursday in the journal Nature, says damage to the ventromedial prefrontal cortex can increase a person's willingness to kill or harm another person in order to save other lives. The New York Times said the study provides evidence that "human revulsion for hurting others" relies on neural anatomy. Experts said evidence of damage to this ventromedial area could sway judgments of moral competency...

Close window Published online: 28 February 2007; | doi:10.1038/news070226-8 Electric switch could turn on limb regenerationTadpoles use a proton pump to direct tissue regrowth.Heidi Ledford Tadpoles: chop off their tails and they grow back. NHPA Tadpoles can achieve something that humans may only dream of: pull off a tadpole's thick tail or a tiny developing leg, and it'll grow right back — spinal cord, muscles, blood vessels and all. Now researchers have discovered the key regulator of the electrical signal that convinces Xenopus pollywogs to regenerate amputated tails. The results, reported this week in Development, give some researchers hope...

Rome paid tribute to the barbarians clamoring at her gates. It didn't do any good. Paying ransom only postponed the inevitable sacking, burning, and looting of the empire's capital. The UK's Neville Chamberlain sought to pacify Hitler, only to see Brits hiding in basements from the blitzkrieg a few years later. Instead of remembering history's lessons, the Washington Post today indulges in feel-good, intellectual rationalization of Muslim intolerance and hatred. In a 5-page manifesto entitled, "Anatomy of the Cartoon Protest Movement," authors Anthony Shadid and Kevin Sullivan exercise unlimited poetic license, calling Islamist hooliganism "a rare moment of empowerment among...

Female Anatomy Inspired Stonehenge? By Jennifer Viegas, Discovery News Feb. 28, 2003 —The design of Stonehenge, the 4,800-year-old monument in southwestern England, was based on female sexual anatomy, according to a paper in the current Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. The theory could explain why the ancients constructed Stonehenge and similar monuments throughout the United Kingdom. Anthony Perks, a professor emeritus of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of British Colombia in Vancouver, and a doctor at the university's Women's Hospital, first thought of Stonehenge's connection to women after noticing how some of the stones were smooth,...