RICHMOND, Va., Sept. 5 - Grace Kendall knew back in seventh grade that she did not want to cut open a preserved frog. Her teacher allowed her to use a computer alternative. Now a junior at Stafford ...

Each time Karina Frey picked up a scalpel to begin a dissection in her high school science classes, she felt sad. “I’m an animal lover,” she says, “so knowing animals were killed for scientific ...

The founders of NecropSynth use SketchUp Pro to design the external shell of a 3D printed model of a rat. NecropSynth Bart Taylor had a terrible time with his high school rat dissection. His skin was ...

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 ...

If you were one of those folks who didn’t really like to cut into frogs in biology class, you can easily relate with this software: V-Frog, virtual-reality-based frog dissection software. V-Frog ...

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 ...

HOW well I remember the school biology lesson when we had to dissect a frog. All that retching, all that sniggering. And that was just the teacher. Now those happy days of scalpels and frogs’ eyes may ...