'Bodies' expo opens in London

AN exhibition displaying preserved human body parts opened in London yesterday.

Bodies...The Exhibition features 22 corpses and 260 organs and specimens, some showing effects of obesity and smoking on the body.

But concern has been raised over the origins of the human remains at the Earls Court Exhibition Centre, which come from China.

Organisers dismissed claims some of the remains may be those of executed Chinese political prisoners.

A spokeswoman said: "The bodies died of natural causes, that has been established by post mortems."

The specimens are preserved through "polymer preservation" by removing all the water. The exhibition follows Gunther von Hagens's 2002 display. He dissected bodies on TV.