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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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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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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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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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09 September 2026
DeepMind launches AlphaGenome, aiming to predict gene regulation from DNA sequence
From STAT: Stowers Investigator Julia Zeitlinger discusses AlphaGenome, Google DeepMind’s AI model designed to predict gene regulation from DNA sequence.
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09 September 2026
AlphaGenome Atlas Scores All 9 Billion DNA Mutations, Doubles Rare-Disease Hit Rate
From Tech Times: Stowers scientists helped use AlphaGenome Atlas to reveal how transcription factors regulate gene activity.
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08 September 2026
Stowers Institute partners with Google DeepMind and leading research institutions to help reveal the regulatory language of the human genome
Researchers provided biological expertise and feedback that helped guide the development of a new AI-powered resource released today. For the first time, scientists can explore a comprehensive map of more than 9 billion possible single-letter DNA changes through a web browser, helping them more quickly prioritize and interpret variants that may influence biology and disease and lay groundwork for future treatments.
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08 September 2026
AlphaGenome Atlas: a high-resolution map of human DNA
From Google: AlphaGenome Atlas maps the predicted effects of 9 billion DNA changes to help scientists better understand genome regulation.
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08 September 2026
Google DeepMind’s AlphaGenome Atlas maps all 9 billion possible human DNA changes
From SiliconANGLE: The Zeitlinger Lab used AlphaGenome Atlas to reveal how transcription factors regulate genes across different cell types.
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08 September 2026
Google DeepMind publishes AI-powered predictions for the effect of all 9 billion possible single-point mutations in the human genome
From Fortune: Stowers scientists helped advance Google DeepMind’s AlphaGenome Atlas, an AI-powered resource mapping 9 billion possible DNA changes.
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31 August 2026
The Precision Revolution
From Kansas City Magazine, Kansas City’s hospitals and researchers are harnessing AI, genomics and precision medicine to create treatments tailored to each patient
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26 August 2026
Beyond AlphaFold: Inside the Push to Embed AI Deep Inside the Wet Lab
From InnotechInsider, Stowers is highlighted among leading research institutes integrating AI directly into biological research.
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26 August 2026
Stowers Institute Scientists Develop PISA for Genomic AI Models
Stowers research featured in AI Brief, highlighting PISA, a new method for interpreting what genomic AI models learn from DNA
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25 August 2026
A Summer of Discovery
Reflecting on the 2026 Stowers Summer Scholars Program
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25 August 2026
A clearer view of what AI learns from DNA
A team from the Zeitlinger Lab developed PISA, a new method for visualizing what deep-learning models learn from DNA at single-base resolution. By separating experimental bias from biological signal, the team was able to train a more focused model that revealed previously hidden DNA sequence features linked to nucleosome positioning and the genome’s larger three-dimensional organization. The work also shows how model interpretation can guide new experiments and help biologists move from AI prediction toward biological mechanism.
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21 August 2026
Decoding a stinging cell shaped by half a billion years of evolution
Postdoc Profile: Anna Klompen, Ph.D., on her Stowers research experience — "My experience at the Institute has been exceptional."
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14 August 2026
The gall of an aphid
Aishwarya Korgaonkar, Ph.D., a researcher in the Stern Lab, can’t stop thinking about little sap-sucking insects most of us barely notice
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14 August 2026
Understanding the Language of DNA: A Stowers Summer Scholar explores how genes can turn on and off
Tehseen Bukhari is studying how proteins control access to genes in the Zeitlinger Lab, building experimental and computational skills through the Stowers Graduate School’s Summer Scholars Program.
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06 August 2026
Faculty EDGE: The conversations that shape careers
The Institute’s Faculty EDGE workshop, a key component of the Stowers Postdoctoral Training Program, prepares Stowers postdocs for what they will encounter in the academic job market
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