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Tiny Transportation: Active vs. Passive Transport in Cells

Posted on 7/25/19 by Laura Snider
Today, we’re going to take a close look at the human body. I mean a really close look. That’s right—we’re talking about cells! More specifically, we’re going to talk about how materials (water, oxygen, and sodium and potassium ions, for example) get ...
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Laura Snider

Anatomy & Physiology

VB News Desk: Horns?! Nope, just an enlarged external occipital protuberance.

7/13/19 by Laura Snider
Here at Visible Body, we enjoy keeping up with the latest scientific research. When we heard there was a study saying that young people were growing ...
Technology in Anatomy Education, Technology in Education

Inside the Cadaver Lab Part 2: An Interview with Chad Howland, PT, DPT, CMPT

7/11/19 by Laura Snider
For the second installment in our Inside the Cadaver Lab series, we interviewed Chad Howland, PT, DPT, CMPT, a professor at Husson University’s ...

Inside the Cadaver Lab Part 1: The Past, Present, and Future of Cadaver Dissection

6/27/19 by Laura Snider
Dissection-simulating technology is certainly a useful addition to the curriculum in many labs and classrooms, but performing dissections of real ...
Pathology

VB News Desk: Advances in Diagnosing Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE)

6/15/19 by Laura Snider
CTE — or chronic traumatic encephalopathy — is a neurodegenerative disease that occurs as a result of repeated head trauma. Concussions can play a ...
Anatomy & Physiology

VB News Desk: The Facts on the Fabella

6/8/19 by Laura Snider
Did you know that 39% of people have an extra bone in their knee called the fabella? The fabella is a small sesamoid bone that sits behind the ...
Anatomy & Physiology

Viva the Vagus! Five Facts About the Tenth Cranial Nerve

6/7/19 by Laura Snider
Has someone ever told you to “go with your gut,” or have you ever trusted a “gut feeling” without knowing why? Well, “gut feeling” is a more literal ...
Anatomy & Physiology

VB News Desk: Anatomy and Physiology in Space!

6/1/19 by Laura Snider
What does space travel have to do with anatomy and physiology? More than you might think. Just this April, a groundbreaking study investigating the ...
Anatomy & Physiology

Anatomy and Physiology: The Adventures of Super Spleen

5/30/19 by Laura Snider
You could say that the spleen has a special place in my heart (figuratively, of course). When I was in fifth grade, my classmates and I learned about ...
Technology in Anatomy Education, Technology in Education

How to Integrate Anatomy and Pathology Content Using Courseware

5/23/19 by Laura Snider
Today, I’m going to show you how to use Courseware to integrate content from across Visible Body’s suite of apps in a series of lessons about ...
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