HONING SKILLS: Trinity biologist Robert Blystone says dissection provides the opportunity for students to develop scientific observational skills. Poring over a frog's insides once was nearly ...

GREENWICH — The process of dissecting organs in biology class conjures up the smell of formaldehyde and the feel of rubbery flesh. But in one classroom in Greenwich, dissection labs are taking an ...

Computer scientists at the University of Buffalo have developed V-Frog, the world's first virtual-reality-based frog dissection software designed for biology education. Contrary to previous virtual ...

J.W. Mitchell High School in New Port Richey, Fla., became the first school in the world to dissect synthetic frogs last week. Students dissected 100 “SynFrogs” that were created by SynDaver, a ...

(NEW YORK) — The smell of formaldehyde in classrooms may soon be a thing of the past as high schools begin to introduce synthetic animals for biology students to dissect, instead of the real thing.

When Laurie Wolff refused to cut up an earthworm in the name of science two years ago, the straight-A student was rewarded with a C. So much for good karma. This spring, Wolff, who just completed ...

(CBS News)–Biology class is getting a little more humane at one high school in Florida, where high school students have started dissecting realistic man-made frogs instead of the real animals. Nearly ...

My seventh-grader is upset because he learned his science class will be dissecting a frog this year. He doesn't want to dissect an animal. Should I encourage him to do it because it might be a good ...

The frogs are made using synthetic tissue and mimic properties of a live frog. The smell of formaldehyde in classrooms may soon be a thing of the past as high schools begin to introduce synthetic ...