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September 25, 2013 12:54 am GMT

Google Earth Meets The Body: BioDigital Gets $4M To Bring Its 3-D, Virtual Anatomy & Health Platform To Every Browser

Screen Shot 2013-09-24 at 1.44.33 PMWhile the film is extremely compelling, it turns out that there's actually a better way to learn about and visualize the human body than by watching Osmosis Jones on repeat. It used to be that students and the anatomically curious had to turn to pictures in textbooks or plastic models (Gasp! I know) to get a virtual tour of the human body. Well, thankfully, it turns out that some graduate students are learning with a better, more tech-savvy interactive map -- as if the human body were being given the Google Earth treatment.

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