The user learns about the science and technology behind developing new drugs. A graphic panel associated with the exhibit discusses the origins of many drugs, including rainforest plants. You Visitor can play with a large human sized lightbox. The visitor guesses whether each organ can be transplanted or replaced by a bionic part. After they guess they touch a button triggering multimedia about how medical technology is used to transplant or replace failing functions of that part of the body.
Donations Please Visitors explore the real issues and human drama of transplants.
Surgery Films Visitors can watch real surgery procedures in the Life Tech Theater. Edited versions of raw footage obtained from medical education catalogs and medical schools will show an assortment of topics such as organ transplants, appendix removal, and knee surgery. Tough Choices These two text panels explore some thought-provoking ethical issues surrounding technology's effects on the beginning and ending of life. Delivering the Goods Visitors examine an outline of a body inset with various drug-delivery systems.