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Arts & Entertainment

Body Worlds Vital World Premiere

The newest exhibit of the Human Saga series focuses on telling the story of the human body from being healthy to having a disease by using actual human cadavers. The exhibit will show how people can make changes for their bodies to be less prone toward cancer, diabetes or organ failure. There is also a focus on the capacity of the human body throughout life. The human cadavers are keep through physician and anatomist Gunther von Hagens' process of Plastination, which removes any bodily fluids or fats and inserts resins and polymers. The exhibit shows how systems in the body work. This process allows people to view a real human body like never before.

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