DETROIT — For decades, Grosse Pointe Park businessman Arthur Rathburn lived a comfortable life as an esteemed anatomy expert: He received patents for cadaver station designs, published a reputable ...

DETROIT — For years, they worked side by side. He cut up the bodies. She dealt with the customers. Together, the FBI says, the Rathburns of Grosse Pointe Park made big bucks renting out body parts to ...

Two years after federal agents raided his Detroit warehouse and discovered 1,000-plus human body parts, Grosse Pointe Park businessman Arthur Rathburn has been indicted on charges he ran an illegal ...

When “DAPHNE” first arrived at Dalton State, no one knew much about her – basically that she was around 92 when she died. After spending some time with her, students in one of Dr. Gene Mesco’s biology ...

EMTB Anatomical Terms and Body Systems Drill Session Reference: 1 Topic: Anatomical Terms and Body Systems Level of Instruction: 3 Time Required: 3 hours Materials: • Chalkboard • Anatomy visuals • ...

The six first-year med students approach the table, the place where for the next seven weeks they'll spend so much time, it will seep into their dreams. They brace themselves to meet him. Him, their ...

DETROIT — New details about a body broker business in Michigan reveal cadaver dealer Arthur Rathburn washed human remains down the drain, had a habit of storing heads in mouthwash and cremated only ...

For the last 14 years, National Geographic has followed Dr. Vic Spitzer, a professor at the University of Colorado Anschutz, and Susan Potter on her journey from life to becoming a "living cadaver." ...

Roughly 18 years ago, a woman named Susan Potter asked to donate her body to science when she died. Now, she lives on as the highest-resolution digital cadaver that exists to date. Potter’s story, ...