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17 October 2024
How Cells Know Where to Grow After Injury
From The Scientist, Fish fins and single-cell sequencing help Stowers Institute scientists glean new insights into tissue regeneration.
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14 October 2024
Stowers scientists explore how sugar-loving bats can help humans
From KCTV5, newly released research from Stowers Institute shows bats have evolved strategies to survive. In fact, scientists recorded the highest ever observed sugar levels in a mammal—levels that would be coma-inducing for humans.
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In The News
07 October 2024
Researchers Now Know How Killifish Regenerate Their Fins
From Regenerative Medicine Foundation, Stowers Institute Researchers say their findings could inform regenerative medicine in humans.
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01 October 2024
Some fish regrow injured fins and we’re closer to understanding how
From New Scientist, Stowers Institute researchers have uncovered new details about how some fish can regenerate their tail after an injury, which could inch us closer to employing regenerative medicine in people.
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28 September 2024
Secrets of killifish regeneration may help us heal humans
From Earth.com, Recently, researchers at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research have made strides in understanding one aspect of this regeneration process – the timing of cellular response to injury in killifish.
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19 September 2024
Stower Scientific Director named '20 to Know' in Kansas City Health Care
From the Kansas City Business Journal, Kausik Si's work centers on the brain, specifically how some proteins found in the brain are linked to neurogenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer’s.
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In The News
11 September 2024
How bats regulate their blood sugar levels could lead to new therapies for metabolic conditions like diabetes
From Diabetes.co.uk, New research into how bats have evolved to survive blood sugar levels which would be fatal in humans could pave the way for new treatments for conditions including diabetes.
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03 September 2024
See inside KC labs where fish regrow their hearts, research ‘sounds like science fiction’
From the Kansas City Star, Tens of thousands of zebrafish capable of regrowing their hearts and thousands of snails that can regenerate their eyes are being cultivated at a Kansas City institute — laying the foundation for future cures to human diseases.
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In The News
28 August 2024
Bats’ sky-high blood sugar levels offer new hope for diabetes research: Study
To explore how bats diversified their diets, Stowers Institute researchers embarked on extensive fieldwork in the jungles of Central America, South America, and the Caribbean.
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28 August 2024
How Do Bats Thrive With Blood Sugar Levels That Would Kill Humans?
From U.S. News and World Report, new research results from the Stowers Institute indicate bats have evolved strategies to survive based on the diet they are presented in their environment.
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28 August 2024
How Do Bats Thrive With Blood Sugar Levels That Would Kill Humans?
From Drugs.com, Some bats have the highest blood sugar levels ever observed in any mammal, surviving and even thriving with levels that would kill a human, researchers report.
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In The News
28 August 2024
Some bats are surviving and thriving with blood sugar levels that would be lethal for other mammals
From Phys.org, New research from the Stowers Institute may enable potential solutions to metabolic disease by turning to evolution and to bats.
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23 August 2024
Some bats eat a ton of sugar and have no health woes. Are there lessons for diabetes?
From NPR, Jasmin Camacho, Ph.D., discusses research related to bats and metabolism during a recent field study in Belize.
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17 August 2024
Some bats eat a ton of sugar and have no health woes. Are there lessons for diabetes?
From NPR, Stowers Postdoctoral Researcher Jasmin Camacho, Ph.D., wants to know which molecules bats are using during exercise to regulate their blood sugar in order to bring their glucose levels down. And she’s curious about how they protect their bodies from accumulating the kind of damage to their cells and DNA that usually comes from digesting a lot of sugar.
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31 July 2024
Scientists at Stowers Institute in Kansas City find how mosquitoes transmit diseases, invade cells
From KSHB 41 NBC, Researchers in the Bazzini Lab explain how their new findings could pave way for new treatments, vaccines
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31 July 2024
Behind The Bench-Vidyanand Sasidharan
From the Indian Society for Developmental Biologists, Postdoctoral Researcher Vidyanand Sasidharan, Ph.D., was interviewed about his research in their "Behind the Bench" series
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26 July 2024
Researchers Expose How Mosquito-Borne Viruses Infect Hosts
From Technology Networks, research from the Stowers Institute for Medical Research offers new hope in the search for novel antiviral treatments and vaccines against dengue viral infections. Dengue and other viruses preferentially use a host’s less efficient codons, possibly to evade an antiviral response.
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25 July 2024
Researchers Expose How Mosquito-Borne Viruses Infect Hosts
From Technology Networks, Dengue and other viruses preferentially use a host’s less efficient codons, possibly to evade an antiviral response.
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24 July 2024
Flying under the radar: mosquito-borne virus uses nonoptimal codons to infect host
From BioTechniques, Researchers have found that dengue virus infects mosquito and human hosts using nonoptimal synonymous codons, potentially to avoid triggering an antiviral response.
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22 July 2024
Scientists uncover fundamental rules for how dengue virus infects its mosquito and human hosts
From Phys.org, Mosquito-borne viral infections once confined to tropical regions are spreading. Dengue virus infects up to 400 million people worldwide each year according to World Health Organization estimates, and no available treatments exist for this disease.
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22 July 2024
Dengue Uses Nonoptimal Codons to Invade Human and Mosquito Cells
From Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News, new research from the Stowers Institute investigated the adaptation of virus genomes to the host optimality code. To do that, they used mosquito-borne dengue virus as a model. The findings uncovered strategies that dengue (and other viruses) use to replicate in their hosts, with the potential to aid in developing novel antiviral treatments and vaccines.
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08 July 2024
16 years of Bat-a-thon: Researchers met in Belize for various research on bats
From NPR, Dozens of bat researchers, including Stowers Institute Postdoctoral Researcher Jasmin Camacho, Ph.D., descend upon a tropical preserve in Belize, home to a diverse population of bats. Each scientist hopes to net the specific breed of bat they need to do their research.
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In The News
03 July 2024
2024 Innovators and Influencers: Kausik Si, Ph.D.
From In Kansas City Magazine: Meet 10 people, including Stowers Scientific Director Kausik Si, Ph.D., who are making a difference in Kansas City.
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29 May 2024
With Neither Brains nor Brawn, Jellyfish and Relatives Developed Subcellular Weapons Instead
From The Scientist, Anna Klompen, a postdoctoral researcher at the Stowers Institute, explained how cnidarian stinging cells harpooned their way into her heart and could help answer fundamental questions in biology.
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