On Wednesday of this week, just a few miles from my home in Missouri, Virginia Johnson Masters passed away at age 88. Most of you are...

If you happen to be here in Las Vegas at the 2013 Human Anatomy and Physiology Society (HAPS) Conference , then you may want to check out ...

A recent article in TheScientist proposes a novel theory about how acupuncture may produce some of its therapeutic effects. It turns out...

Blood viscosity is a concept that is important in understanding blood flow.  It is, after all, one of the factors that affects peripheral...

You know that dramatically wrinkling that occurs when your fingers and and toes get wet? The classic explanation has been that such wrin...

About a year ago, I posted a brief item in my blog The A&P Student about academic honesty .  It succinctly describes what "acade...

I always start my A&P 2 with a final exam. WHAT?! Yep, that's right. I start with a FINAL exam! It's a version of the final ...

Yesterday, the scientific community lost another of its great people, Rita Levi-Montalcini . In The Human Body in Health & Disease ...

Final exams are almost upon us. So last week, I posted an article on reducing test anxiety my blog The A&P Student Recent research h...

Here’s an interesting tidbit of current sensory research that you can drop into a discussion in your A&P course. You know how mixing ...

Yesterday, the scientific community lost a true pioneer . . . Joseph Murray , who pioneered skin grafting and developed the first succe...

U. PITTSBURGH (US) — New imaging technology will allow doctors to clearly see for the first time neural connections broken by traumatic brai...

Most journals that publish the "big news" in life science breakthroughs, such as Nature and Science , carry with them big pric...

A recent paper in Nature describes a new approach to avoiding inherited mitochondrial disorders. Although identified as "germline ...

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2012 to Robert J. Lefkowitz Howard Hughe...

The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has today decided to award The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2012 jointly to Joh...

During spring cleaning in my household, I'm often heard lamenting that yet another of my treasures has been deemed "junk" an...

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...