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Technology in Anatomy Education, Technology in Education, Surveys

What did 1,250 college students tell us about the future of digital learning?

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 inadvertently running something of a real-time experiment that gives us clues to what the future ...
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Anatomy & Physiology, Biology

How—and Why—Do Humans Walk Upright?

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 ...
Pathology, Biology

Four Brilliant Black Scientists from the 20th Century

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 ...
Anatomy & Physiology

It’s Electric!: The Cardiac Conduction System

The healthy heart pumps five to six liters of blood every minute—if you’re like me and visualized that as three two-liter soda bottles, you know ...
Technology in Anatomy Education, Biology, Technology in Education

How 3D Models Help Biology Students

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

Biology Comes to Life in 3D Through New Partnership Between Visible Body and zSpace Announced at FETC 2022

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

A Brief Guide to Blood Donation

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 ...
Technology in Anatomy Education, Biology, Lesson Plans, Technology in Education

Free Lesson Plan: Diffusion and Osmosis with Visible Body Suite

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

A Look Inside Mitochondria: Components, Cellular Respiration, and Disorders

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

Visible Body Launches Visible Biology, A 3D Visual Guide to Biological Processes

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