Mammals, from the mighty blue whale to the tiny shrew, inhabit nearly every corner of our planet. Their remarkable ...

The mere mention of Leonardo da Vinci evokes genius. We know him as a polymath whose interests spanned astronomy, geology, ...

Professor Goodsir asked Pettigrew to call on him the next day, anxious to win the heart dissection preparations for the University’s Anatomical Museum. The 112 neat glass jars can still be found ...

Human heart anatomy from a healthy body isolated on white background as a medical health care symbol of an inner cardiovascular organ in a 3D illustration style. Getty Images/iStockphoto.

Using white card stock, scissors and some glue, Horst Kiechle created an anatomically-correct model of the human torso with removable organs. Now you can too! Skip to main content ...

Nothing says "romance" like a hands-on heart dissection. By Brittanie Shey , Former Culture Reporter Feb 8, 2024 The Health Museum is hosting hands-on heart dissections through the month of February.

For many students at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the University of Maryland School of Medicine, the experience of working with a body donor is meaningful beyond a passing grade.

Your heart is an exquisitely engineered pump made almost entirely of muscle. And you can see the extraordinary engineering in action if we slow your heart to a single beat. Inside the cavernous ...

For many students at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the University of Maryland School of Medicine, the experience of working with a body donor is meaningful beyond a passing grade.

Our research suggests that the human heart has adapted to support our upright stance, movement and larger brain. Over the last ten years, we have been conducting assessments of the cardiovascular ...