This is so wrong-headed. You could not pay me to take a drug that was not tested in animals, and animal models remain absolutely essential for discovery research www.statnews.com/2025/05/19/a...
This is so wrong-headed. You could not pay me to take a drug that was not tested in animals, and animal models remain absolutely essential for discovery research www.statnews.com/2025/05/19/a...
What Carole said -
It is absolutely crazy to think we no longer need model organism research. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
It is absolutely crazy to think we no longer need model organism research. - Carole Labonne www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #science #devbio #xenopus #frogs
This is mission CRITICAL. Please comment.
It will work but only if Debbie made the hyb
Legend!
Congratulations to Ray Keller, PhD for his election to the National Academy of Sciences. www.xenbase.org/xenbase/doNe... #science #devbio #xenops #frogs
Dr. Dominique Alfandari seeks requests for producing Xenopus antibodies. Fill out the form in the link to make your suggestions. www.xenbase.org/xenbase/doNe... #science #devbio #xenopus #frogs
The International Xenopus Board (IXB) Young Investigator Award recognizes an outstanding junior faculty member from any country making significant scientific achievements using Xenopus. Nominations due June 20, 2025. www.xenbase.org/xenbase/doNe... #science #devbio #xenopus #frogs
Thank you for the opportunity to speak about our work amongst so many cool talks! πΈβ¨
Excited for day one of the first @ epilepsyinst.bsky.social conference! If you ever wanted to know how tadpoles can help us understand DEE please come and chat at poster 2
Froggers post up!
So incredibly happy that Ray Keller was elected to the AAAS! He's a pioneer of the cell biology of morphogenesis and of embryo mechanics, and a hero of mine. So grateful for his outstanding work. Even more grateful that he always took me seriously congrats Ray!!!
www.amacad.org/new-members-...
CRISPRi in frogs! cellandbioscience.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
Cool new work on metabolic activity in embryonic cell migration using #xenopus! journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
#xenopus and chickens coming together to parse Six1 targets and deafness risk genes! journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
Check it out! #xenopus πΈ
βWe want to do something more interactive,β my graduate cell biology students said. βLike what?β I replied.
Cool new #xenopus paper on the contribution of sperm epigenetic marks on development! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Does anyone know why Ensembl no longer have genome sequence of Xenopus laevis anymore??? Or am I missing something? Has this always been the case? @ensembl.bsky.social
Check it out! #xenopus to the rescue for functional genetics! 𧬠πΈ
Check it out! π€©πΈβ¨
Think youβre stressed? Check out this new work on inducing tissue strain coupled to live imaging πΈβ¨ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40059484/
Preprint Alert! Juyeon Hong in the lab has dissected the molecular organization of distal tips of vertebrate motile cilia. She even found a new compartment in the extreme distal tip marked by Ccdc78 and Ccdc33. Give it a read!
@biorxiv-cellbio.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Our Xenopus team in action! πΈπΈP.S.: they shared this photo with their PI voluntarily πππ₯Ή
Give yourself the highest Valentine of all and apply to the Xenopus CSHL course! Applications due Feb 14! β€οΈπΈβ€οΈ
Birth defects are diseases of development and are the #1 cause of death in the first year of life. And birth defects kill more than twice as many children as cancer. 4% of ALL hospitalizations (for all ages) are due to birth defects. Economic impact of birth defects is > 22 billion dollars per year.