From interactive diagrams to A.I. assistants, virtual tools are beginning to supplant physical dissections in some classrooms ...

Dr. Neil Haycocks twists and turns the 3-D image to review the head and neck CT scan from a variety of angles. Even without being a doctor, it’s easy to tell from the clear, virtual image that the man ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Soon, medical students will use a technology similar to Pokemon Go to learn to locate the body’s organs, bones and veins. Traditionally, med students dissected cadavers or studied ...

This story idea is the first in a periodic series to feature technology and techniques that scientists use in biomedical research. Tucked away in the back room of a Johns Hopkins research building, a ...

Many health care providers will tell you that of all the courses they took in school, gross anatomy was, by far, the most meaningful. Now, advanced technologies are making that experience even richer.

Human anatomy and physiology is explored through “immersive story telling” enabled by gaming environments combined with virtual and augmented reality. LINDSAY lets us “walk” through the human body, ...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) --Students at the University of St. Thomas just got their hands on something new. A 3D, life-sized human anatomy table allows students to dissect the human body virtually. "This ...

Bryce Cedarquist inspects a human body hovering above him. He's in a room that looks like a generic medical office. But as Cedarquist circles the body, it becomes clear that this is no ordinary ...

AMES, Iowa – In a recent class session devoted to reviewing the components of a monogastric digestive system, Alexandra Else-Keller reminded an animal science student how to position her fingers as ...

Animating human hands has long been considered one of the most challenging problems in computer graphics. That's because it has been impossible to capture the internal movement of the hand in motion - ...

A group of Live Oak High School seniors took a scalpel and peeled back the skin of a cadaver named Victor to display his muscle system on Friday. The scalpel and Victor, however, were both virtual. It ...