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14 March 2023
Five facts about memory and the brain
Memories of “firsts”—a first kiss, first love, first heartbreak—feel permanent. But why do we remember some moments yet forget others?
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03 March 2023
Local Biotech Company Has A $2 Billion Endowment And A Mission To “De-Risk” Research
From Kansas City Magazine, BioMed Valley Discoveries is funded by the Stowers Institute, a medical research institute also located in Kansas City, where scientists are able to pursue research without worrying about constantly searching for grant monies.
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03 March 2023
KC Emerging as a Life Sciences Powerhouse
From Flatlandkc.org, New Facilities Culminate Decades-Long Quest in Kansas City.
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24 February 2023
#TechTalk: Q&A with Zulin Yu, Head of Light Microscopy
Zulin Yu is a scientist in the Stowers Institute’s Microscopy Technology Center.
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24 February 2023
Evolution Turns These Knobs to Make a Hummingbird Hyperquick and a Cavefish Sluggishly Slow
From Scientific American, by tuning the enzymes that control the breakdown or storage of sugars, hummingbirds and cavefish adapt their metabolism to meet the demands of the vastly different environments in which they live
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22 February 2023
Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado: “Making the improbable possible”
From the Vilcek Foundation, Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado is the executive director and chief scientific officer of the Stowers Institute. A molecular and developmental biologist, his work focuses on the molecular, genetic, and cellular processes of regeneration in living organisms.
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14 February 2023
Slide-Seq Hits the Spatial Biology Market as Curio Seeker
From Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News, new spatial technology, Slide-seq, offers high resolution due to the platform’s minute barcoded beads and limited diffusion.
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02 February 2023
Unmasking five mysteries of metabolism
Stowers scientists are uncovering many mysteries underlying metabolism. Here we ask five questions to unravel metabolism and its complexities.
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02 February 2023
How will ‘couch potato’ humans evolve? Idle cavefish offer clues.
From the Washington Post, a species of fish washed by floods into dark Mexican caves has been essentially sheltering in place for the last 160,000 years, undergoing genetic changes that reset its metabolism.
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30 January 2023
#TechTalk: Q&A with Kevin Ferro, Scientist in Cytometry
Kevin Ferro is a scientist in the Stowers Institute’s Cytometry Technology Center.
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27 January 2023
#LookInTheLab: How does our sense of smell work? The Yu Lab investigates the science of detecting odors
The lab investigates the complex connection between neurons that link sensation to behavior.
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26 January 2023
Kansas City researchers say being a couch potato may affect evolution. Just ask these fish
From KCUR, the changes in the fishes’ muscle metabolism could help shed light on the long-term effects of physical inactivity in humans.
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24 January 2023
Stowers scientists use cavefish to learn about metabolism and the evolutionary basis of being a couch potato
Researchers have discovered what prolonged physical inactivity may mean for humans many thousands of years down the road by studying cavefish.
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23 January 2023
#LookInTheLab: From hearing loss to cancer, a glimpse into the Piotrowski Lab
Jeremy Sandler, Ph.D., a postdoctoral researcher at the Stowers Institute provided a #LookInTheLab highlighting the research happening in the Piotrowski Lab.
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22 January 2023
Stowers Institute Stem Seminar hosts youth
From KCTV5, Stowers Investigator, Kausik Si, PhD, delivered a STEM talk about his work studying memory.
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20 January 2023
Stowers Predoc appointed to GSA 2023 Early Career Leadership Program Cohort
The Genetics Society of America (GSA) is excited to announce the latest cohort of student, postdoc, and early-career research leaders joining the Early Career Leadership Program.
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03 January 2023
2022 Stowers Report
The 2022 Stowers Report celebrates some of the incredible contributions our scientists, students, and staff have achieved this past year.
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22 December 2022
2022 in Images
Take a look back at some notable scientific images produced by Stowers scientists that we shared in 2022
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21 December 2022
2022 in Review
Join us as we review scientific discoveries of 2022, ranging from the human genome to planarian flatworms, from regeneration to metabolism
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20 December 2022
#TechTalk: Q&A with Steph Nowotarski, Electron and Light Microscopy
Steph Nowotarski is a scientist in the Stowers Institute’s Microscopy Technology Center.
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20 December 2022
Three Stowers scientists receive prestigious grants
Three Stowers postdoctoral researchers were recently awarded project funding
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19 December 2022
Nikon Small World in Motion Competition – Top 5 Winning Videos of 2022
The competition, currently in its 12th year, showcases the very best videos and time-lapse photography from under the microscope.
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14 December 2022
How dangerous 'selfish genes' succeed, according to new research
From CTV News, research into selfish genes could one day be used to fight diseases, especially those that can be transferred between insects, animals and humans.
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14 December 2022
Stowers Investigator discusses memory research providing hope to Alzheimer’s patients on KU Hospital’s Morning Medical Update
Kausik Si, Ph.D. explains how his work studying memory is proposing a new theory when it comes to understanding Alzheimer’s and dementia.
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