AN UNBORN baby's brain was used by an Oxford medical student without its parents' permission.
The students at the John Radcliffe Hospital used the fetal brain in a research project despite no consent for such use being in place.
Permission had only been given for 'education, medical record and genetics'.
In another incident, two human brains removed at the hospital during post mortem examinations were replaced in the wrong bodies afterwards.
The mistakes last year have been published by national regulator the Human Tissue Authority.
The HTA said it made an official record of both incidents because they 'could result in adverse publicity that may lead to damage in public confidence'.
The information was only disclosed after a Freedom of Information request to the authority for 'reportable incidents' across the county in 2016.
The HTA was set up in 2005 following a series of scandals in the 1990s that revealed a culture in hospitals of removing and retaining human organs and tissues without consent.
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