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My best friend turned out to be pretty allergic to the formalin/formaldehyde or whatever preservative they used. Even when she used gloves and wore a lab coat, the skin on her inner arms and the backs of her hands would get red and irritated. Our group developed a system where she told us what to find/cut and how to locate it, we'd locate it, show her, and then we'd complete the dissection. She did end up touching stuff to study, but we way minimized her contact with the actual tissues.