Link: http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,663849,00.html

That's not coral -- but a true-to life model of the human vascular system.

This series of veins have been plastinated using a method developed by Dr.Gunther von Hagens, the scientist behind the often controversial Body Worlds exhibits. A liquid plastic gets injected into the blood stream. When it hardens, scientists can study the system as it is in the human body.


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