Pedro Morales-Sosa
@readoctopus.bsky.social
scientist in the making
PhD student studying ADPKD in the Blanco Lab
Cell Biology & Physiology - KUMC
PhD student studying ADPKD in the Blanco Lab
Cell Biology & Physiology - KUMC
Excellent new review article out now from our lab highlighting the diverse functions of the Na,K-ATPase as both an essential ion pump and signaling protein!
Frontiers | Na,K-ATPase mediated and cardiotonic induced signaling in health and disease
In the late 1950’s, Na,K-ATPase (NKA) was discovered as the active transport system that establishes and maintains the transmembrane Na+ and K+ gradients nec...
www.frontiersin.org
November 14, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Excellent new review article out now from our lab highlighting the diverse functions of the Na,K-ATPase as both an essential ion pump and signaling protein!
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Institute postdoc @batevodevo.bsky.social is featured in Empire of Bats, a new Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) documentary premiering tonight, exploring how nectar-feeding bats defy #biology with their sugar-fueled metabolism. 🦇
Learn more: bit.ly/4oqlFQM
Learn more: bit.ly/4oqlFQM
Empire of Bats | The Nature of Things | CBC Gem
New hosts Sarika Cullis-Suzuki and Anthony Morgan take on The Nature of Things, the world's longest-running science documentary series.
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October 29, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Institute postdoc @batevodevo.bsky.social is featured in Empire of Bats, a new Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) documentary premiering tonight, exploring how nectar-feeding bats defy #biology with their sugar-fueled metabolism. 🦇
Learn more: bit.ly/4oqlFQM
Learn more: bit.ly/4oqlFQM
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Organoids and organs-on-chips bridge the gap between basic biology and human health, offering insights to scientists and more precise diagnostic and therapeutic strategies for patients. 🧬 🔬 🧪
Science in 3D: How organoids and organs-on-chips can help scientists study host-immune-microbiome interactions
Organoids and organs-on-chips bridge the gap between basic biology and human health, offering insights to scientists and more precise diagnostic and therapeutic strategies for patients.
www.jax.org
October 7, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Organoids and organs-on-chips bridge the gap between basic biology and human health, offering insights to scientists and more precise diagnostic and therapeutic strategies for patients. 🧬 🔬 🧪
Reposted by Pedro Morales-Sosa
We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.
"Jones, 27, is among the residents left at 7500 S. South Shore Drive who are trying to piece together what remains after an early morning, high-powered federal immigration raid led to the arrests of dozens of their neighbors at their South Shore apartment building."
Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'
The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.
chicago.suntimes.com
October 2, 2025 at 4:23 PM
We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.
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Are you interested in a PhD in the area of "Mechanisms of translational control during embryogenesis?" Apply now for a PhD @mpi-cbg.de! Overview of all participating RGLs: imprs.mpi-cbg.de/5761/researc...
October 2, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Are you interested in a PhD in the area of "Mechanisms of translational control during embryogenesis?" Apply now for a PhD @mpi-cbg.de! Overview of all participating RGLs: imprs.mpi-cbg.de/5761/researc...
Reposted by Pedro Morales-Sosa
Shark tooth regeneration: RNAseq reveals genes for unlimited dental renewal https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.26.672487v1
August 31, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Shark tooth regeneration: RNAseq reveals genes for unlimited dental renewal https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.26.672487v1
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Scientists present an advanced new technique for live-imaging regenerating limbs, shown here on a sand flea.
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August 25, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Scientists present an advanced new technique for live-imaging regenerating limbs, shown here on a sand flea.
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This surprisingly relaxing footage is from SIX MILES under the ocean – and it’s the deepest ecosystem yet discovered
July 31, 2025 at 3:38 PM
This surprisingly relaxing footage is from SIX MILES under the ocean – and it’s the deepest ecosystem yet discovered
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The International Court of Justice just issued a landmark opinion that countries have a legal duty to protect people and ecosystems from the “urgent and existential threat” posed by climate change. news.un.org/en/story/202...
World Court says countries are legally obligated to curb emissions, protect climate
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, Netherlands, issued its advisory opinion on the obligations of States in respect of climate change, read out by the President of the Court, Judge...
news.un.org
July 30, 2025 at 10:13 PM
The International Court of Justice just issued a landmark opinion that countries have a legal duty to protect people and ecosystems from the “urgent and existential threat” posed by climate change. news.un.org/en/story/202...
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The climate crisis is real & the science is well-established. The effects are harming people and threatening the natural world that sustains us. Now the federal government is using discredited claims to undermine the nation’s ability to respond – putting lives and livelihoods at risk. bit.ly/3U607f6
U.S. Climate Alliance on EPA’s Climate Denial and Science Office Closure: “Americans Deserve the Truth” | U.S. Climate Alliance
Alliance co-chairs California Governor Gavin Newsom and Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers issued a statement in response to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) actions to shutter its scientific res...
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July 30, 2025 at 10:13 PM
The climate crisis is real & the science is well-established. The effects are harming people and threatening the natural world that sustains us. Now the federal government is using discredited claims to undermine the nation’s ability to respond – putting lives and livelihoods at risk. bit.ly/3U607f6
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✊ Now, more than ever, your voice is needed! This Earth Month, join us in urging Congress to protect our essential environmental laws! Take action today at mbayaq.co/3Gw93qd
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April 21, 2025 at 7:33 PM
✊ Now, more than ever, your voice is needed! This Earth Month, join us in urging Congress to protect our essential environmental laws! Take action today at mbayaq.co/3Gw93qd
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Communications shutdown. Travel ban. Canceled study sections. Now a hiring freeze?
Shutting down the NIH indefinitely without stated cause is literally an act of sabotage.
Left: yesterday. Right: today.
Shutting down the NIH indefinitely without stated cause is literally an act of sabotage.
Left: yesterday. Right: today.
January 22, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Communications shutdown. Travel ban. Canceled study sections. Now a hiring freeze?
Shutting down the NIH indefinitely without stated cause is literally an act of sabotage.
Left: yesterday. Right: today.
Shutting down the NIH indefinitely without stated cause is literally an act of sabotage.
Left: yesterday. Right: today.
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Excited about this new video that explains our research on how comb jelly membranes function under extreme pressure of the deep-sea.
Made by 1st author Jacob Winnikoff & Kyra Schlining for @mbarinews.bsky.social 🦑🧪🌊
Just in time for @dsbsoc.bsky.social! #ctenophore
www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7A0...
Made by 1st author Jacob Winnikoff & Kyra Schlining for @mbarinews.bsky.social 🦑🧪🌊
Just in time for @dsbsoc.bsky.social! #ctenophore
www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7A0...
Grace under pressure: How membranes help comb jellies thrive in the deep
YouTube video by MBARI (Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute)
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January 14, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Excited about this new video that explains our research on how comb jelly membranes function under extreme pressure of the deep-sea.
Made by 1st author Jacob Winnikoff & Kyra Schlining for @mbarinews.bsky.social 🦑🧪🌊
Just in time for @dsbsoc.bsky.social! #ctenophore
www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7A0...
Made by 1st author Jacob Winnikoff & Kyra Schlining for @mbarinews.bsky.social 🦑🧪🌊
Just in time for @dsbsoc.bsky.social! #ctenophore
www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7A0...
Reposted by Pedro Morales-Sosa
Discovery of NANOG enhancers and their essential roles in self-renewal and differentiation in human embryonic stem cells https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.21.628413v1
December 22, 2024 at 1:31 AM
Discovery of NANOG enhancers and their essential roles in self-renewal and differentiation in human embryonic stem cells https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.21.628413v1
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These fascinating finds underscore the dazzling diversity of life in the deep. 🤩💙
The YouTube description contains chapter markers with all of the species and depth information for each clip. Be sure to choose 4K in the YouTube settings!
youtu.be/ZlzRgvaGGGE
The YouTube description contains chapter markers with all of the species and depth information for each clip. Be sure to choose 4K in the YouTube settings!
youtu.be/ZlzRgvaGGGE
Some of our favorite deep-sea moments of the year—in stunning 4K
YouTube video by MBARI (Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute)
youtu.be
December 17, 2024 at 7:55 PM
These fascinating finds underscore the dazzling diversity of life in the deep. 🤩💙
The YouTube description contains chapter markers with all of the species and depth information for each clip. Be sure to choose 4K in the YouTube settings!
youtu.be/ZlzRgvaGGGE
The YouTube description contains chapter markers with all of the species and depth information for each clip. Be sure to choose 4K in the YouTube settings!
youtu.be/ZlzRgvaGGGE
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Macrophage migration-dependent retraction fibers and migrasomes - a structural basis for spatiotemporal cytokine secretion. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.12.627632v1
December 16, 2024 at 7:30 AM
Macrophage migration-dependent retraction fibers and migrasomes - a structural basis for spatiotemporal cytokine secretion. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.12.627632v1
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Notch signaling stabilizes lengths of motile cilia in multiciliated cells in the lung https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.12.628112v1
December 12, 2024 at 4:30 PM
Notch signaling stabilizes lengths of motile cilia in multiciliated cells in the lung https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.12.628112v1
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A transcription factor toggle switch determines differentiated epidermal cell identities in Hydra https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.10.627691v1
December 11, 2024 at 5:31 PM
A transcription factor toggle switch determines differentiated epidermal cell identities in Hydra https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.10.627691v1
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Hyaluronic Acid and Emergent Tissue Mechanics Orchestrate Digit Tip Regeneration https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.04.626830v1
December 9, 2024 at 3:35 AM
Hyaluronic Acid and Emergent Tissue Mechanics Orchestrate Digit Tip Regeneration https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.04.626830v1
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Over 40% of reef-building #coral species are at risk of extinction. Now, an immune-boosting #multivitamin could help reverse that trend! 💊🪸🐠
📲 Find out how #WHOI’s #ReefSolutions team + UVI researchers are helping reefs recover: go.whoi.edu/visource-corals
📲 Find out how #WHOI’s #ReefSolutions team + UVI researchers are helping reefs recover: go.whoi.edu/visource-corals
December 6, 2024 at 6:54 PM
Over 40% of reef-building #coral species are at risk of extinction. Now, an immune-boosting #multivitamin could help reverse that trend! 💊🪸🐠
📲 Find out how #WHOI’s #ReefSolutions team + UVI researchers are helping reefs recover: go.whoi.edu/visource-corals
📲 Find out how #WHOI’s #ReefSolutions team + UVI researchers are helping reefs recover: go.whoi.edu/visource-corals