[Source: Arizona Daily Star] – Joshua Lopez gently peels transparent covering from a metal tray in his lab. His actions are fluid, like he’s undoing gift-wrap he plans to reuse. He has good reason to be careful: Inside the plastic bundle is a human head.
Lopez works at the University of Arizona’s Plastination Lab, where body parts take on second lives for education. But these aren’t average cadavers: Plastination – the same process used in exhibits such as Body Worlds – permanently preserves them, piece by piece.
For more information: Preserving body parts is a labor of love at UA’s Plastination Lab