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As the world’s second leading cause of mortality, strokes are an important topic in allied health education. Visible Body’s vast library of content ...

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BOSTON – February 28, 2025 – With the February launch of new accessibility features, Visible Body now offers the most accessible interactive 3D ...

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As you read this blog post, you might be tapping your foot as you sit at your desk or lifting your phone to get a better look at your screen. Even if ...

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Visible Body provides the tools to help teachers teach and students learn the anatomy and physiology behind trauma assessment—from high schoolers ...

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We wrapped up 2024 with 250 new academic institutions joining the Visible Body community—over 100 new colleges and universities plus 150 new high ...

As part of its annual “Thanks and Giving” event, Visible Body gave back to the local community this month by working with Birthday Wishes. Founded in ...

There are several anatomy and physiology visualization apps on the market today, so when instructors and administrators first encounter Visible Body ...

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When creating educational resources, accuracy is the name of the game. We at Visible Body strive to create the best possible content that works on ...

When it comes to course prep and quiz grading, you can let Visible Body do the heavy lifting. It’s hard to get students engaged, and it’s even more ...

More and more colleges and universities are encouraging instructors to adopt textbook alternatives like Visible Body Suite and Visible Body ...

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Case studies are a great way to engage with students, allowing them to see “real world” applications for the content they learn in the classroom as ...

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There are several 3D anatomy education tools on the market today, and it can be tricky to find the one that’s right for you and your classroom. At ...

Virtual anatomy education tools are becoming more and more popular, and there is a wide range of forms those tools can take. Many are meant to ...

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The Visible Body team hopped across the pond to London to debut new features at the biggest education technology exhibition in the world: Bett UK. ...

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In December 2023, Visible Body was featured on multiple Apple App Store top-of-the-charts lists around the globe, including Top Apps of 2023, Top ...

Your institution or district might have purchased an interactive panel like an Anatomage Table or Clear Touch panel—did you know that you can use ...

Visible Body is dedicated to helping users teach and learn anatomy, physiology, and biology in engaging 3D. Over the years, we’ve expanded access to ...

I recently chatted with Marina Orobinskaia, director of the nursing assistant program at Northshore School District’s Medical Professions Academy. ...

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Biology classrooms across the globe use earthworms to introduce invertebrate anatomy to students, and Visible Body Suite is here to help! VB Suite is ...

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[Update: All of Visible Body's biology content is exclusively available in VB Suite!] Visible Body is excited to release a new, fully dissectible 3D ...

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[Update: All of Visible Body's biology content is exclusively available in VB Suite!] Visible Body, the provider of best-selling 3D visual and ...

M-learning, also known as mobile learning, is one of the most exciting frontiers in education. More and more students access learning materials on ...

All of Visible Body's biology content is exclusively available in VB Suite! Let’s take a look at invertebrate anatomy! Studying invertebrates is a ...

The fall semester is almost upon us! To kick off the new academic year, let’s talk about student engagement. It’s clear that education has an ...

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We love to keep up to date with anatomy education research, so today on the Visible Body Blog, we’re going to look at a recent study on anatomy ...

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It’s 11:30 pm. You’re a student who needs to take a final exam online in your hybrid course. It’s timed, and it’s due at midnight. Procrastination ...

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NEW ORLEANS — June 26, 2022 — Visible Body, the company behind Human Anatomy Atlas, Visible Biology, and Visible Body Courseware, will be at ISTE ...

[Update: All of Visible Body's biology content is exclusively available in VB Suite!] Instructors around the world can now use Visible Biology, a 3D ...

Today on the Visible Body Blog, we’re talking about osteons! As the functional and structural unit of compact bone, the osteon is responsible for the ...

Today on the Visible Body Blog, we’ll walk through a lesson plan centered around the liver! This lesson uses collaboration and the 3D tools in ...

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The human body doesn’t always look like it does in textbook illustrations. The term anatomical variant refers to deviations from the norm that don’t ...

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Visible Body is excited to announce new and updated anatomy models coming to Human Anatomy Atlas 2022 +. After listening to feedback from ...

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Visible Body works hard to form a community of educators who support one another and strive for pedagogical excellence, so we were thrilled to have ...

The Visible Body Blog was excited to sit down with Bert Oppenheim, Vice President of Creative Services here at Visible Body, to chat about medical ...

If there was a New York Times bestseller list in 1859, Charles Darwin might have made it with his groundbreaking book On the Origin of Species by ...

Flashcards are available on mobile and web for Web Suite, Courseware, and Human Anatomy Atlas 2022＋users! Now you can become a studying powerhouse ...

DNA can be hard to understand because it’s difficult to visualize, but it’s important for students to understand the structure of DNA so they have a ...

Earlier this year, we were fortunate to have Richard Mantrana lead a webinar sponsored by the National Association of Biology Teachers. He talked ...

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We are pleased to announce that our newest product, Human Anatomy Atlas 2022＋, is now available to download from the iOS App Store and Google Play ...

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With all the speculation about how education will or won’t be permanently altered by the pandemic, here at Visible Body, we’ve found that we’ve been ...

Walking is something that many of us take for granted, but it’s more complex than you might think. Today on the Visible Body blog, we’ll look at the ...

To celebrate Black History Month, let’s explore the stories of Marie M. Daly, Charles Richard Drew, Ernest Everett Just, and Jane C. Wright: four ...

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As technology advances, there are more and more tools to help students visualize complex information. These tools open up new avenues for students ...

ORLANDO — January 28, 2022 — Visible Body and zSpace, Inc. unveiled a new software offering for zSpace’s all-in-one screen VR (virtual reality) ...

Someone requires platelets or a blood transfusion every two seconds in the United States, but the Red Cross, which supplies 40% of the country’s ...

Diffusion and osmosis are concepts that are important in understanding how cells—and organisms at large—function. Rather than let students “learn ...

It’s the mantra of every biology classroom: The mitochondrion is the powerhouse of the cell. But what does that actually mean? Mitochondria (the ...

[Update: All of Visible Body's biology content is now exclusively available in VB Suite!] FRAMINGHAM, MA — January 11, 2022 — Visible Biology, a ...

If the past two years have taught us anything, it’s that the future is unpredictable. The pandemic has added confusion and uncertainty and has forced ...

Some experts have called it “our next national health disaster.” For almost two years, much of the medical research community has focused on ...

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Though pancreatic cancer is considered rare, it is the fourth leading cause of cancer death and has the highest mortality rate of major cancers. For ...

Students don’t always want to pay attention to their anatomy and physiology coursework—sometimes they would rather focus on medicine and clinical ...

You know that feeling when the killer or the monster is creeping around the corner, ready to attack its next victim? Your heart races, your breath ...

Between shopping for plastic vampire fangs and worrying that chewy candy might yank out a filling, we’ve been thinking a lot about teeth this ...

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The Visible Body team has been working hard all summer to bring you some wonderful new features and improvements in Web Suite and Courseware. We’re ...

Whether you’re considering purchasing Visible Body Courseware or you just want a few new teaching ideas for the upcoming school year, we’ve got some ...

[Update: All of Visible Body's biology content is now exclusively available in VB Suite!] An exciting new feature (Flashcards!) just released for the ...

Since the spring of 2020, many instructors have been using Visible Body to help maintain a high quality of instruction when shifting to an online or ...