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  • Pearson’s Practice Anatomy Lab 4.0 wins Best Virtual Lab at the 2024 SIIA CODiE Awards

    A hundred years ago, anatomy students would squint from the top row of an oak-paneled lab as their professor dissected a cadaver. They’d hastily make sketches to remember what they saw. Then came the camera, and the ability to snap a photo of an eviscerated mouse to study later in your dorm. And now, cutting-edge technology is reinventing the study of anatomy and physiology (A&P), with virtual labs that provide 3D anatomical models that can be accessed anywhere, anytime.