When medical students have finished their study and practice on cadavers, they often hold a respectful memorial service to honor these bodies donated to science. But the ceremonies at one medical ...

Biology class is getting a little more humane at one high school in Florida, where high school students have started dissecting realistic man-made frogs instead of the real animals. Nearly 100 ...

A surgical skills laboratory and corresponding dissection curricula were established in the Department of Neurosurgery at the Cleveland Clinic in the 2011-2012 academic year. The authors describe how ...

A Florida high school has found an alternative to the well-known, yet smelly and messy, science class ritual passed on throughout generations at U.S. high schools. J.W. Mitchell High School in New ...

Small talk at an exercise class led one reporter to explore why fitness professionals are seeking out cadaver workshops. By Danielle Friedman Danielle Friedman is a freelance journalist and a regular ...

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 ...

GREENWICH — The process of dissecting organs in biology class conjures up the smell of formaldehyde and the feel of rubbery flesh. But in one classroom in Greenwich, dissection labs are taking an ...

Wearing a white coat and rubber gloves, Framingham High School senior Alex Gill carefully sliced open the carcass of a mink to take a peak at the critter's organs. A few cuts here and there and he ...