While emphasis is often placed on keeping athletes and outdoor enthusiasts properly hydrated, too much water can be just as dangerous. E...

I'll never forget the feedback a dean gave me a few years ago when he visited my (then) new A&P supplement course . The feedback was...

Researchers recently demonstrated that a flu vaccine delivered using microneedles that dissolve in the skin can protect people against infe...

A recent paper in the journal Brain , a journal of neurology, challenges the long-held notio n that the sensory speech area of the left temp...

Looking for a supplemental  hands-on  activity with cardiology  in your course? Try the FREE online interactive  Cardiology Virtual Lab...

Existing dogma in neuroscience states that the brain does not possess the classical lymphatic drainage system found in other parts of body...

I radically changed my approach to testing my A&P students about 13 years ago. It was was one of those experiments that had me question...

It never fails—somebody always asks about what's going on when knuckles crack when we get to the topic of articulations. Recent...

Liven up your A&P class with a great video showing a gruesome attack by a killer T cell on a cancer cell. It's a fantastic bit of...

Looking for a supplemental hands-on activity with the immune system in your course? Try the FREE online interactive Immunology Virtu...

It's that time of year, eh?   Cold and flu season.  And this week we have news from researchers giving us a bit more insight into th...

Scientists reported today that adipocytes in mouse and human skin produce an antimicrobial peptide (AMP) called cathelicidin is respons...

Okay, the title is a bit misleading because a some of the five features you may have missed are new, so it may just be too early to have ...

How well does the textbook you use in your course fit?  What I mean by that is: Have you looked at whether the reading style is gea...

Here are some computer-based activities that help students learn specific concepts of physiology produced by veteran professor Pete Shep...

Huntingtin Huntingtin, the abnormal protein that produces clumps characteristic of Huntington disease (HD), can spread from one neuro...

Five years ago, I extolled the virtues of teaching a little bit about RNA interference (RNAi) in undergraduate A&P courses.  But for...

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2014 to Eric Betzig Janelia Farm Res...

The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has today decided to award The 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with one ha...

All teachers use red pens to grade student work, right?   Not this teacher.  I haven't used a red pen in over a decade.  I have stron...