The frogs are made using synthetic tissue and mimic properties of a live frog. The smell of formaldehyde in classrooms may soon be a thing of the past as high schools begin to introduce synthetic ...

The protest barely qualified as one. Six staunch PETA supporters, including one inside a cat costume and another dressed as a pig, paced the sidewalk outside High School District 113 in Highland Park.

Dear EarthTalk: Are the animals used in classroom dissection taken from the wild? If so, wouldn't this be endangering their populations? Are there other environmental issues associated with classroom ...

As the new school year approaches, the National Anti-Vivisection Society (NAVS), headquartered in Chicago, would like to remind students and teachers of the Student Choice Law in Illinois. Illinois ...

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 ...

For some students, dissecting animals in class can be the highlight of the semester. For others, however, it’s cruel and … maybe kind of gross. But for students at a Florida high school, the learning ...

With the recent bluefin mercury drama, it might the right time to get up close and personal with some tuna anatomy, and if you can read Japanese you might even learn something. For the rest of us ...

THIS book is intended as a guide to the study of each of the larger groups of invertebrates. About forty animals are considered in the space of 196 pages, consequently the descriptions of many of them ...

Temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) is one of the most common drug-resistant forms of epilepsy in adults and usually originates in the hippocampal formations. However, both the network mechanisms that ...

The history of autopsy and dissection of human bodies in the United States may seem like an innocuous topic, a necessary means to study life and its inevitable end. But in the 19th century, the vast ...