Although she couldn’t see its face, the stiff cat preserved in formaldehyde on the table in front of her reminded Meredith Benson of her sister’s cat, which died a couple of months before. The ...

Pencils, check. Notebook, check. Backpack, check. Scalpel… wait, what? If you think knives don’t belong on a school-supply list, you’re in good company: Studies show that as many as 25 percent of ...

Dissection, that staple of high school biology class, is slowly going the way of the slide rule, yielding to changes in technology, values, funding and science itself. "Biology has changed a lot," ...

ALEXANDRIA, Minn. — Bio Corp., an Alexandria company that provides specimens for dissection in classrooms, was charged with 25 counts of animal cruelty after a hidden-camera video was produced by the ...

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 ...

Dissection, that staple of high school biology class, is slowly going the way of the slide rule, yielding to changes in technology, values, funding and science itself. “Biology has changed a lot,” ...