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07 December 2022
How selfish genes succeed
Research on selfish genes provides new insight on meiotic drive systems
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01 December 2022
Stowers News - December 2022
Zebrafish help us understand immune system, 119-million-year-old selfish gene, and more
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In The News
18 November 2022
Stowers Institute, BioMed Valley use funding stream to translate research into solutions
From the Kansas City Business Journal, BioMed Valley Discoveries has a unique relationship with the Stowers Institute that allows it to focus on moving new discoveries closer to treatment instead of raising money.
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In The News
18 November 2022
Nectar bats are ‘wonderful, majestic’ and sugar-obsessed. This researcher wants to know how they stay healthy
From Stat News, Nectar bats may have nature’s biggest sweet tooth. Each night, the creatures scour the jungle for blossoming flowers in order to consume as much as 150% of their body weight in liquid sugar.
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17 November 2022
#TechTalk: New Technology at Stowers helps identify biomolecules
Charles Banks is a scientist in the Stowers Institute’s Systems Mass Spectrometry Technology Center. We sat down with him to learn more about a new instrument Stowers members have access to—the timsTOF flex MALDI-2.
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In The News
17 November 2022
Solution to curing Type 1 diabetes might hinge on fish
From KSHB 41, there's a world-class science facility conducting research that could have a massive impact on the search for a cure to this burdensome disease.
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In The News
14 November 2022
Stowers postdoc named 2022 STAT Wunderkind
From STAT News, STAT celebrates the unheralded heroes of science and medicine, poring over hundreds of nominations from across North America in search for the next generation of scientific superstars.
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08 November 2022
Cheating to win
The wtf meiotic driver gene family has been cheating—and winning —for over 100 million years
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News
07 November 2022
Stowers Investigator Jennifer Gerton wins KU Cancer Center Director’s Award
Investigator Jennifer Gerton, PhD, has been awarded The University of Kansas Cancer Center’s 2022 Director's Award for Basic Science.
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In The News
02 November 2022
Medical Illustration? What’s That? Let Me Draw You a Picture!
Stowers Scientific Illustrator, Mark Miller, is featured in this piece from Healthy Kansas City
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News
19 October 2022
Stowers Executive Director wins 2023 Vilcek Prize in Biomedical Science
The Stowers Institute for Medical Research is proud to announce that Executive Director and Chief Scientific Officer, Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado, Ph.D., is the recipient of the 2023 Vilcek Foundation Prize in Biomedical Science.
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Press Release
19 October 2022
Discovery of 119-million-year-old selfish genes in yeast potentially alters our understanding of how parasitic DNA impacts genome evolution
Meiotic drivers, a type of selfish gene, are indeed selfish. Present in the genomes of nearly all species, including humans, they unfairly transfer their genetic material to more than half of their offspring.
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In The News
17 October 2022
Stowers research: How a jellyfish cousin's sting could improve delivery of medicine
Kansas City Business Journal
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In The News
06 October 2022
Purpose-Driven Profits
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News
21 September 2022
One percent reimagined
While Stowers’ scientists are tackling the foundations for how life works to improve life’s quality, the Chouinards are helping ensure that there will be a life worth improving.
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Press Release
20 September 2022
Stowers scientists use zebrafish to understand the connection between the immune system and regeneration
New research used the highly regenerative zebrafish to investigate the timing and genetic programs of macrophages in the repair and regeneration of a zebrafish sensory organ.
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Video
13 September 2022
Stowers Predoc wins Nikon Small World in Motion Award
Ahmet Karabulut was recently awarded third place in the Nikon Small World in Motion competition for his video showing a time-lapse of neurons and stinging cells of the sea anemone
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In The News
06 September 2022
Smart software untangles gene regulation in cells
Nature
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In The News
01 September 2022
How Sea Creatures Pack a Tiny Propulsive Sting
Scientific American
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In The News
01 September 2022
Blind Cave Fish May Trade Color for Energy
Scientific American
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24 August 2022
Stowers Postdoc named HHMI Hanna H. Gray Fellow
Jasmin Camacho, PhD, a postdoctoral researcher at the Stowers Institute received coveted Hanna H. Gray Fellow award from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
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News
18 August 2022
Welcoming our new class
The 2022 Graduate School class of predoctoral researchers have arrived at Stowers and begun the adventure that will ultimately lead to a Ph.D. in biology.
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18 August 2022
How does a jellyfish pack such a tiny sting?
Research from the lab of Stowers Investigator Matt Gibson, PhD was recently featured in an article in the September 2022 issue of Scientific American.
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18 August 2022
Blind cavefish may trade color for energy
The September 2022 issue of Scientific American features an article titled, "Blind Cave Fish May Trade Color for Energy."
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