J.W. Mitchell High School in New Port Richey, Florida is the first high school in the world to use synthetic animals in lab dissections, as reported by CNN. SynDaver, a company that creates 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 ...

Getting up close and personal with bacteria, fetal pigs and nature are just some of the things participants in University of Texas Permian Basin’s biology camp got to experience this week on campus.

Increasing numbers of students are asking to opt out of the science-class ritual of dissecting frogs or fetal pigs, branding the practice cruel and insisting they can learn as much from computer ...

Walking to the lunch kiosk last week, I noticed one of the halls smelled strongly of a scent I hadn't sniffed since high school. It was a smell I will always and forever associate with dissecting ...

DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) -- Students in some states are asking to opt out of a traditional biology class teaching staples -- dissection. But in Iowa, there seems to be little protest. The Humane Society ...

Do you remember getting this excited about pig dissection in high school biology class? In the most recent episode of NBC's TV show "A.P. Bio" called "Eight Pigs and a Rat," students open a ...