Parts cut from donated bodies 'sold illegally at top US medical school'

Burke & Hare eat your heart out!

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=499615

Police are investigating the illegal trade in human body parts at one of America's most prestigious medical schools where officials allegedly made thousands of dollars selling torsos, heads and limbs for use in unregulated experiments.

The University of California's Centre for Health Sciences in Los Angeles said yesterday that it was doing everything it could to assist police in the inquiry, which focuses on a senior university official and another man.

Both have been arrested over allegations that body parts left to the university by former patients were being sold to outside research institutions.

"These allegations of criminal activity ... are extremely troubling," Albert Carnesale, the university's chancellor, said. "Please know that we are shocked and angered by the despicable behaviour of those involved."

Creepy.

Which is why I mentioned Burke & Hare.