Most of us mention the concept of doping in our A&P courses because it's an ever present issue in our society and therefore a ...

A few weeks ago, science lost one of its greats . . . Andrew Fielding Huxley.  As explained in my textbooks , "The British physiolo...

Beginning about 8 years ago, scientists began providing evidence that apparently overturns the dogma that adult ovaries do not contain ste...

In a previous pos t, I proposed that A&P students should be aware of the basic elements of protein folding.  To follow up, I'd lik...

For those of you who use (or refer to) my textbooks , you may notice that I've been gradually adding more and more coverage of protein...

Besides free advice , The A&P Professor is also a big fan of free resources and references.  And here's a set of free resources...

Almost two years ago, I published an article about testing as a method of teaching in my blog The Electronic Professor. In the article, ...

How do you prevent cheating in your A&P class?  Or do you even think about it? One of my favorite "teaching" books is Wh...

As you begin another term of A&P, don't forget to stock up on those FREE eyeball bookmarks for your students! These unique ...

Can caffeine help us learn A&P (or anything else)?  Can it improve our memory? Recent research published in Nature Neuroscience this ...

Voltage-gated K+ channel protein  KCNQ4 We recently discussed the role of ion channels in membrane potentials of excitable cells in my A...

The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has today decided that The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2011 shall be divided,...

As you begin another term of A&P, don't forget to stock up on those FREE eyeball bookmarks for your students! These bizarre ...

Remember my previous post, in which I gave you a free slide show on the role of the appendix in keeping the gut microbiome happy?  Well, t...

When in comes to explaining the role of the human vermiform appendix , I must dispel students' belief that it has no role . And then I...

Have you seen this video from Science Videolab that shows fluorescent-stained neutrophils rushing toward the site of a tissue injury ? T...

A few years ago, we brainstormed about what else we could do as A&P professors to help our students succeed.  We realized that the two...

Today NewScientist reported that the world's first computerized map of the brain was unveiled last week by neuroscientists at the Allen...

I'm excited about the recent publication of my latest textbook for A&P students!  Essentials of Anatomy & Physiology is designe...

Have you noticed that the microbiome of the human body has taken off as one of the hottest areas?  Each month, new concepts of how our mic...

Two recent articles in Nature reveal a mystery that's been puzzling physiologists for a couple of decades . . . how does progesterone s...

We've known for a half-century that the lining of the small intestine has a scattering of weird little cells called tuft cells.   They a...

In a recent post , I briefly discussed some presentations that I do regarding using Running Concept Lists and Concept Map s to learn anatom...

You already know that we use antibodies in several ways to combat infection in our immune system.  They bind to pathogens, they activate com...