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Over six years, a UCLA medical school official sold 496 cadavers for $704,600, according to invoices that provide the first evidence of the scope of the scandal in the school's body donor program. Reuters Slideshow: Lawsuit Alleges UCLA Sold Body Parts The invoices on UCLA letterhead, covering transactions from 1998 through 2003, were shown to The Times by the law firm representing Ernest V. Nelson, the entrepreneur who purchased the body parts and resold them to large research corporations. Among the companies that bought the body parts from Nelson was pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson, according to correspondence sent by...

<p>LOS ANGELES — Officials at the University of California, Los Angeles (search), acknowledged Monday that parts of bodies donated for medical research there had instead been sold, and apologized for a failure in oversight.</p> <p>Donors' families, meanwhile, filed a lawsuit against the school, claiming the director of the university's Willed Body Program (search) had been selling body parts illegally for years with the knowledge of other UCLA officials. UCLA has denied knowing about the sales.</p>

FRANKFURT JOURNAL A New Spine-Tingler From the Impresario of Cadavers By MARK LANDLER Published: February 3, 2004 A magazine report that Dr. Gunther von Hagens, the organizer of the Body Worlds traveling exhibition now drawing crowds in Frankfurt, bought the bodies of executed Chinese prisoners for his exhibits has brought him new notoriety. "Muscleman with his skeleton" is part of the Body Worlds traveling exhibition. FRANKFURT, Feb. 2 — As Gunther von Hagens hurried out of his exhibit here the other day and hopped into a waiting van, fans thrust programs through the open door, beseeching him for an autograph....

<p>A former autopsy assistant allegedly stockpiled 157 pounds of human remains, including two well-preserved heads, because he was curious and wanted to conduct his own research in anatomy, police said Saturday.</p> <p>David Lawrence Beale was arrested Friday after a tip led police to a shed near his home and a storage locker he rented in this quiet college town about 75 miles northeast of San Francisco, Lt. Jim Harritt said.</p>