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A biomedical company that received donated dead bodies and then sold them for a profit for experiments such as IED blast tests has been ordered to pay $58 million to the families of the deceased individuals. A Maricopa County Superior Court jury awarded ten of the 21 families of donors $58 million, finding that Biological Resource Center (BRC) of Phoenix deceived them into donating their deceased loved ones’ bodies. The families later discovered the bodies were sold for a profit without their consent. A report at the Washington Post referred to BRC as a “human chop shop” and observed the...

FULL TITLE: 'Buckets of limbs, a cooler filled with male genitalia and a woman's head sewn onto a man's torso': Lawsuit filed against Arizona scientific center reveals the true horror of 'Frankenstein-style' research involving 1,755 body parts A lawsuit against Arizona-based Biological Resource Center (BRC) has described how the donation clinic misused loved ones' bodies in grisly scenes similar to the horror novel Frankenstein. The chilling descriptions came to light this week as part civil action filed by 33 defendants whose loved one's bodies were donated to the facility. Plaintiffs state that they were misled by the company who led...