Bodies - The Exhibition

I know you want to see this... come on, who wants to go? I'll be happy to tag along.
Here's the article from MSNBC

NEW YORK - If an anatomy textbook came to life, it might look like “Bodies … The Exhibition,” a show that opened Saturday at South Street Seaport in Manhattan.

The exhibit features 22 human bodies and 260 specimens preserved for display in a 30,000-square-foot space. Highlights include skinless cadavers in a football player’s pose, another throwing a baseball and one body holding hands with its own removed skeleton — all to show how muscles, tendons and bones work together.

There IS something similar in Philly called BODY WORLDS: The Anatomical Exhibition of Real Human Bodies. It has over 200 exhibits. I am going there in the next week or two with my sister.

In other news:

1. The world's first partial face transplant was recently performed - by a doc who performed the world's first double-forearm transplant already. link
   
2. Scientists have successfully implemented a full human schomosome into mice to study Down's syndrome (caused by an extra choromosome 21). link
3. After decades there might be a hope for people with lupus - at least in preventing kidney disease - in the name of a drug called CellCept. link