Forensic scientists in Switzerland are pioneering a whole new way to do autopsies. No scalpel required.
By Jessica Snyder Sachs
Posted 10.16.2004 at 3:00 pm
A light shines under the closed door of a radiology suite, down a darkened hallway deep inside the University Medical Center in Bern, Switzerland. Outside the building, under the glow of a fluorescent street lamp, an empty hearse waits in the loading dock. Tonight the local undertaker is earning some extra money making a special delivery. Entering the radiology room through a back door, he gently deposits a body—double-wrapped inside a blue bag—on the sliding bed of a full-body scanner.
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