What Happens When You Donate Your Body To Science?

Body Parts Don't worry--your remains won't end up in our magazine. No actual bodies were used in the making of this photograph. Sam Kaplan No computer simulation or dummy or animal can really convey the complexity of human anatomy like a cadaver can. But what exactly happens to your body when you donate it to science? Safety Studies Researchers subject cadavers to laboratory scenarios--an impact into a simplified car's steering wheel and seat, for instance--and record the resulting forces and in...