The Highlands County school district in Florida may soon be examining virtual specimens on a computer screen rather than real ones under a microscope. Rebecca Fleck, the assistant superintendent of ...

SALEM – I am a lifelong vegetarian, so one could imagine my horror when I was told to dissect a frog in middle school. A dead frog? I was mortified. Though I loved science and knew it would be an ...

Students in training to be nurses, paramedics and physical therapists will be able to dissect, analyze and study the human body on virtual cadavers with a device newly acquired by Carroll Community ...

Students at a New Jersey high school can virtually dissect the human body, thanks to the purchase of cutting edge technology that is typically available only to medical students. Cadaver dissection is ...

When Oregon State University converted its Cascades campus in Bend to a four-year university, the science department faced a dead-body problem. To properly teach three levels of anatomy and physiology ...

Human anatomy class is a right of passage for medical school students, but the bodies they dissect tend to be an afterthought. Who can know the story behind this person on the lab table before them ...

E.T. surely would have approved. In Steven Spielberg’s suburban homesick alien classic, the title character’s young friend Elliott flips out in class during frog dissection day, and frees all of the ...

An Inland Empire high school is going virtual when it comes to dissecting frogs in biology class. An animal rights group is giving the school special software to do virtual dissection, instead of the ...

AMES, Iowa – In a recent class session devoted to reviewing the components of a monogastric digestive system, Alexandra Else-Keller reminded an animal science student how to position her fingers as ...

Two companies have teamed up to provide students with options to perform real or virtual dissections. Carolina Biological Supply is working with VictoryVR on the project. The first company provides ...