V-Frog, which operates on a personal computer using a standard mouse, actually simulates nearly unlimited manipulation of specimen tissue. As a result, every dissection is different, reflecting each ...

Tactus Technologies developed the software which lets students, biologists or the just plain curious use a mouse to “pick up” a scalpel, cut open V-Frog’s skin, and explore the internal ...

More than 170 students, from the U.S. and Canada, watched as the instructor made an incision and removed the frog’s stomach contents, a dark brown glob including larvae and insect wings.

J.W. Mitchell High School in New Port Richey is the first school in the world to replace the guts and gore associated with cutting open slimy amphibians with man-made, synthetic frogs used for ...

Each frog costs $150 and can be reused. The synthetic frogs would replace the use of dead, chemically preserved frogs, which can be dangerous to those who handle them, according to SynDaver.