Dominic Roy and Cooper Bruce were two 19-year-old sophomores working for the summer at Tulane University’s cadaver lab a couple of years ago, studying a biometric tool that could create 3D digital scans of cadavers.
They and lab director R. Shane Tubbs, a professor of neurosurgery, had never expected to make a possible discovery.
“It was my first time working with a human body, so it was definitely a really impactful experience,” said Bruce, a Pennsylvania native who was exploring his options between medicine and research, working both there and in another New Orleans lab…