Amy Sater
@SaterAmy
Developmental biologist: cell fate determination, genomics, chromatin, glial development, astrocyte superpowers (plus politics & the middle east). Ceasefire NOW
Bresteau et al. report that apical size reduction via macropinocytosis serves as a malleable and less destructive form of tissue remodeling that can alleviate the need for cell loss. xenbase.org/xenbase/doNews… #science #devbio #xenopus #frogs
Current AI “alignment” is just a mask. We proved it by teaching GPT-4o to write insecure code—and it spontaneously became antisemitic and genocidal. Read the full @WSJ piece here: wsj.com/opinion/the-mo…
New #xenopus work on importin alpha and spindle orientation! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40425783/
Check out peer reviewed version here. 🐸🤩
🎉🎉📖Our work on how intracellular calcium dynamics shape the mucociliary epithelium during Xenopus embryogenesis is now puplished @NatureComms . You can read the manuscript here: rdcu.be/ewTqQ . Many thanks to all the reviewers for their constructive input. 🐸🔬
Senate Appropriations Science&Related Agencies for the fiscal year ending Sept 30, 2026 just posted-it's a completely repudiation of Trump's budget. NSF remains at 2025 levels. It also orders that many of the things he gutted at NOA OAR, NWS etc be restored and fully funds them
This Sp9 staining ROCs 😍 (Pun very much intended — for 🐸 regen aficionados.)
With HCR™ Pro, we’re redefining what’s possible for RNA detection – delivering ultra-sensitive detection ideal for low-abundance targets or highly autofluorescent samples. In this case study, Dr. Douglas Houston from the University of Iowa used HCR™ Pro to reveal clear…
Fun Fact from @TexasTribune article that @RafaelAnchia often repeats for good context: "Federal courts have found at least one of Texas’ maps to be in violation of the Voting Rights Act every decade since it went into effect in 1965." #txlege texastribune.org/2025/07/11/tex…
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Dear all, Please comment on the importance of model organisms research
fda.gov/news-events/fd… Please watch video and post a comment in support of use of animal models. They are seeking our input and if we don’t provide it then they will simply say well we didn’t hear anything
Excited to grow our team! The Tissue Morpho and Mechanics Lab at Hopkins is seeking a full-time Lab Technologist (50% lab tech + 20% lab manager + 30% scientist) to support our research in developmental biology and biomechanics 🐸🖖🔬🧪🫵
I will give this stupid fuck $10,000 if he can tell me what DNA ligation is and how it’s done. I didn’t pull a thousand plates out of the incubator in the morning only to find no colonies for this to be the moronic justification for the end of my research career.
This is insane… 🚨 RFK JR says Dr. Anthony Fauci funded something called “The seamless ligation technique, aka the "no-see'm" method”, which was a Technique Designed to HIDE Evidence of Human Tampering with a Virus And he gave this technique to the Chinese Government. “What…
"you taught the world about freedom" -
Idk why this made me so emotional just now to hear @ZohranKMamdani acknowledge Haiti and Haitians in NY and want to try and help. Because you know isn’t going to Cuomo or Adams.
New: In a ruling issued Monday, the judge called the government's directives “arbitrary and capricious” and ordered funding for some of the NIH grants, including many profiled by ProPublica in recent months, to be restored. propub.li/44ii6o9
In this fascinating preprint, the authors uncover an eye-opening feature of tRNA genes: they’re insanely prone to mutation. Analyzing somatic mutations in cancer tissues, they report that tRNA genes are up to 9 times more mutated than protein-coding genes. Interestingly, the…
Check out this new #xenopus work on mechanical forces, PCP, and wound repair! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40475572/
We are outraged and grief-stricken that the Israeli military has once again massacred dozens of starving Palestinians seeking aid from US-backed aid sites. This is the latest in a string of shootings that have killed 102 Palestinians aid-seekers in the last 8 days. We mourn each…
🚨We urge House members to vote NO on #SB37 today. This bill is bad for TX college students, bad for faculty & bad for colleges & universities. It is a Big Government bill that endangers the excellent standing of our institutions of higher education & health education! #txlege
Dr. Dominique Alfandari seeks requests for producing Xenopus antibodies. Fill out the form in the link to make your suggestions. xenbase.org/xenbase/doNews… #science #devbio #xenopus #frogs