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21 February 2024
An awkward family reunion: Sea monsters are our cousins
Stowers scientists uncover how sea lamprey brain development is remarkably similar to that of humans
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20 February 2024
Stowers Graduate School recruiting for inaugural Computational Biology Scholars Program
The Computational Biology Scholars Program seeks to create new possibilities to perform cutting-edge, collaborative, and multidisciplinary computational science in the Midwest.
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09 February 2024
Stowers Investigator awarded prestigious MIRA grant
Stowers Associate Investigator SaraH Zanders received the Maximizing Investigators' Research Award (MIRA) from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)
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08 February 2024
#TechTalk: New Confocal Fluorescence Microscope at the Stowers Institute
Q&A with Tom Kleist, Ph.D, a member of the Institute’s Microscopy Technology Center
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31 January 2024
Road to Research: A Q&A with Scientific Project Manager Jason Morrison
"I was familiar with the Stowers Institute’s reputation for scientific excellence and intellectual freedom. I knew that was the type of environment in which I wanted to work."
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24 January 2024
Evolutionary insights from a sea monster: The Sea Lamprey
The sea lamprey is a valuable research organism for exploring evolution
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17 January 2024
Postdoc Profile: Michael Church
Q&A with Stowers Postdoc Michael Church: “When I got the opportunity to join the Workman Lab, I jumped at the chance.”
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08 January 2024
Illuminating craniofacial development
From The Scientist, craniofacial anomalies are some of the most common birth defects and can severely impact individuals’ lives, potentially compromising the ability to speak, eat, and even breathe. Learn more about Stowers Investigator Paul Trainor, Ph.D.'s research.
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03 January 2024
Waste not, want not: Silk moths do it differently by recycling
A different meiotic mechanism, likely common to all female species of moths and butterflies, holds chromosomes together until they are ready to segregate.
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21 December 2023
2023 in images
Take a look back at some notable scientific images produced by Stowers scientists that we shared in 2023
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20 December 2023
2023 in Review
Follow along as we highlight 2023 and impactful scientific discoveries ranging from the origins of Huntington’s and infertility to animal evolution and adaptation.
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13 December 2023
Where the wild things are: Planarian flatworms
Planarian flatworms could unlock the secrets to how we may—someday in the future—regrow a damaged or missing limb or repair an organ, potentially transforming the lives of the generations to come.
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13 December 2023
The Great Planarian Hunt
“For any complex question, we always need to go back to nature and ask, can we find the right organism that may provide an answer?”
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04 December 2023
Good things come in small packages: A geometry solution for organizing the center of human chromosomes
Centromeres—specific regions of DNA typically located near the center of chromosomes—achieve a common core structure to ensure proper alignment and segregation of chromosomes during cell division.
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30 November 2023
Postdoc Profile: Riley Galton
Q&A with Stowers Postdoc Riley Galton: "It was really important to me to find a place where I could do top-notch research in an open and collaborative environment."
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29 November 2023
Stowers Institute brings mobile mammogram bus to employees to increase early detection of breast cancer
From KMBC, The Stowers Institute for Medical Research brings a mobile mammogram bus to its employees every year, ever since Dr. Heather Marshall was diagnosed with cancer seven years ago.
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29 November 2023
Stowers Executive VP and CFO featured in Ingrams
Penny Spence, Stowers Executive VP and CFO, was featured in the November 2023 issue of Ingrams as part of the publication's "We KC" series highlighting Kansas City's most prominent female executives.
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16 November 2023
'I'm not gonna let this beat me': KC athlete paralyzed after rare stroke recognized for her determination
From KMBC, Stowers member Melissa Childers shares her inspiring story of how she remained positive and determined to keep living life after a spinal stroke.
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16 November 2023
Road to Research: Q&A with Kaity Petentler, Associate Scientist II in Sequencing and Discovery Genomics
"I then made it my goal to be a part of the Stowers Institute one day!"
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06 November 2023
Featuring the Stowers Institute, ACI taps local design firm to make its new HQ lobby interactive
From the Kansas City Business Journal, a wall inside the new headquarters lobby for American Century includes codes visitors can scan with their phone to learn more about the Stowers Institute for Medical Research and its connection to the company.
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30 October 2023
American Century Investments unveils high-tech lobby, featuring Stowers Institute
From KCTV5, take a tour of American Century Investment's new lobby, featuring the Stowers Institute for Medical Research
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26 October 2023
Call of the wild: (Un)ordinary Organisms
By coaxing out the secrets underlying (un)ordinary biological feats of research organisms—like whole-body regeneration in the case of planarian flatworms—Stowers scientists are investigating how life works at its most fundamental level to ultimately understand human health and find treatments for diseases.
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25 October 2023
Scientist's life comes full circle after beating a disease she has spent her life researching
From KMBC, For more than two decades, Dr. Heather Marshall has worked with animals — studying diseases and how we cure them. Little did she know her work would come full circle when she became the one fighting for her life.
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24 October 2023
KC region receives Tech Hub designation from U.S. Department of Commerce
From KCTV5, “When the non-profit BioNexus kc applied through the department of commerce, it highlighted the success of existing biomedical research institutions, like the Stowers Institute in Kansas City.”
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