Shelf-Preservation: Researchers Tap Century-Old Brain Tissue for Clues to Mental Illness

Monday, January 9, 2012 - 08:03 in Biology & Nature

Among the bloodletting boxes, ether inhalers, kangaroo-tendon sutures and other artifacts stored at the Indiana Medical History Museum in Indianapolis are hundreds of scuffed-up canning jars full of dingy yellow liquid and chunks of human brains. [More]

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