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29 September 2026
Rapidly Evolving Aphid Proteins Share a Common Structural Blueprint
From Technology Networks: The Stern Lab reveals a shared structural blueprint among thousands of rapidly evolving aphid proteins.
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24 September 2026
Shared blueprint in aphid proteins helps AI predict their structures
From Phys.org: The Stern Lab reveals how evolution helped AI predict the structures of thousands of rapidly evolving aphid proteins.
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22 September 2026
Stowers scientists uncover a hidden blueprint in aphids, providing a way to predict what AI couldn’t solve alone
In an evolutionary arms race with plants, aphids deploy thousands of rapidly evolving proteins. A team led by Stowers Institute and HHMI Investigator David Stern, Ph.D., discovered a shared architecture beneath them and revealed how evolution can help AI predict similar protein structures across biology.
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15 September 2026
Stowers Institute and Stanford University study reveals a marine worm rebuilds its cellular identity during metamorphosis
New single-cell atlas of the acorn worm shows that most tissues undergo a genome-wide transcriptional overhaul as larva becomes adult, providing new insights into how some organisms remake their bodies in ways humans can’t.
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15 September 2026
Pairing biology with physics, from the Stowers Institute and beyond
Augusto Ortega Granillo, Ph.D., reflects on his journey from the Stowers Graduate School to his postdoctoral research at the Max Planck Institute
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In The News
11 September 2026
New brain atlas shows neurons don't inherit their identity—they build it in their first hours of life
From Medical Xpress: Stowers scientists reveal how neurons build their identities during a critical window in their first hours of life.
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News
10 September 2026
A cliff near the bottom of the hill
A new study from the Özel Lab offers new understanding and nuance to a long-standing view of development. To understand why, it helps to picture a classic idea in biology: a cell’s path as a marble rolling downhill.
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10 September 2026
New Stowers Institute brain atlas shows neurons don’t inherit their identity — they build it in their first hours of life
The atlas of nearly a quarter million fly brain cells is the first to read both the genes and the DNA switches that control them across an entire developing brain region, providing new insights for "designing" neurons to treat neurological disease.
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In The News
09 September 2026
DeepMind’s new genome ‘atlas’ charts effects of all nine billion human gene mutations
From Nature: Stowers scientists’ work with Google DeepMind is highlighted in a look at AlphaGenome Atlas and its potential to reveal the regulatory language of DNA.
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