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 ...

The use of animals in lab classes at the UI can range from a demonstration of handling livestock in an agriculture class to experiments on how a certain drug will affect the heart rate of a live, ...

Pretty much every middle or high school student in California has endured the rite of passage of dissecting a frog, rat or some other kind of animal in biology class. That could change if Assembly ...

(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.

It’s not just concern for the squeamish biology students who wince at the feel and smell of cutting into a formaldehyde-soaked animal. Think about the frog. The pig. Or even the rat. That’s what ...

Kudos to Connecticut legislators for passing a law allowing students to opt out of animal dissection and be provided with humane alternatives. This crude exercise has no place in 21st century ...

Pig guts and scalpel cuts were optional Wednesday in Sandra Bussian's Winona Senior High School science room. As most of the human biology class dug into ribs and the digestive system of pig fetuses, ...

Riptide never takes too kindly to organizations piggy backing on a big news story to push their agenda. Yeah, sure, it’s PR 101, but it’s just so annoying. So, on the heels of the Cat Killer hubbub ...

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