#Stowers25: Celebrating 25 Years
24 November 2025
Stowers Institute celebrates 25 years of foundational research at Anniversary Symposium
25 Years of Discovery, Innovation, and Hope
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18 November 2025
Decoding early development
Stowers Associate Investigator Ariel Bazzini, Ph.D., discusses a collaboration that uncovered a new mechanism guiding the earliest steps of life.
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In The News
17 November 2025
At 25, the Stowers Institute is still searching for the secrets of life
From The Beacon, when the Institute opened its Kansas City headquarters in 2000, much of the scientific world was skeptical that biomedical research could succeed in the Midwest.
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#Stowers25: Celebrating 25 Years
12 November 2025
The spirit of our founders
Institute leaders reflect on the legacy of Jim and Virginia Stowers
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#Stowers25: Celebrating 25 Years
07 November 2025
Fourteen key discoveries over 25 years
Highlighting 14 high-impact discoveries from the Stowers Institute's inception
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#Stowers25: Celebrating 25 Years
28 October 2025
Making the impossible possible: 25 years of innovation and technology
Jim and Virginia Stowers envisioned a world-class research institute in Kansas City with a mission to unravel the secrets of life. Making their mission a reality required a deliberate commitment to hire the brightest scientists and invest heavily in technology to support innovation.
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In The News
28 October 2025
Century-Old Mystery of Robertsonian Chromosomes Solved
From the Gerton Lab,Scientists pinpointed the DNA sequence where human chromosomes fuse, solving a century-old mystery in genome biology.
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Press Release
22 October 2025
Stowers Institute appoints first AI Fellow to help advance biological research with artificial intelligence
As part of the Institute’s newly launched AI Initiative, Sumner Magruder, Ph.D., will embed cutting-edge computational tools into foundational biology
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In The News
20 October 2025
Cells Have a Crystal Trigger That Makes Them Self-Destruct When Viruses Invade
From Scientific American, the Halfmann Lab shows a special class of immune proteins protect us from pathogens but also drive inflammation and cell death.
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