Junior Dawn Boven, who attended the lecture given by Glover, finds plastination very interesting. Looking at real organisms is much more interesting than looking at two-dimensional pictures in books. Another benefit of plastination is that it can be used to develop new surgical tools and techniques. For instance, a company that makes surgical tools recently asked Glover to provide them with a prostate. By studying the prostate, the company was able to develop new tools and techniques to improve surgery.
People can send in specimens to be plastinized for a fee.
Every autumn, the medical students that work in Glover's lab at the University of Michigan, host a mass funeral service for the families of donors. Over 1,000 people attend.