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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In an article in the Feb. 1 issue of The Scientist, 1 Ricki Lewis asks whether the pig is replaceable as a laboratory research animal. The fetal pig as a specimen for biology dissection labs is indeed ...