16 July 2025

Stowers Institute for Medical Research Name Kristin Bechard as CFO, Treasurer

From Ingrams, Kristin Bechard is the new chief financial officer and treasurer of The Stowers Institute for Medical Research.

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14 July 2025

Cancer Genes Could Be Key to Future Hearing Loss Treatments

From Inside Precision Medicine, researchers at the Stowers Institute have identified two cell division genes that are essential for the regeneration of sensory hair cells in fish. Their findings, published in Nature Communications, offer a new avenue of research for regenerative therapies targeting hearing loss conditions.

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11 July 2025

American Century Championship will benefit KC's Stowers Institute

From KSHB 41, the Stowers Institute in Kansas City is one of the primary beneficiaries of proceeds from the American Century Tournament. Go inside the labs to see the work their scientists are currently pursuing.

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11 July 2025

Charity is a big focus of the American Century Championship at Lake Tahoe

From South Tahoe Now, while eyes are always on those golfing at Edgewood Tahoek, the hearts of many are looking at the charity aspects of the annual American Century Championship. The host of the event, American Century Investments, puts 40 percent of all profits to the Stowers Institute for Medical Research, a world-class biomedical research organization dedicated to defeating life-threatening diseases.

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11 July 2025

American Century Championship will benefit KC's Stowers Institute

Celebrity golf tournament in Tahoe can be seen on KSHB 41

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11 July 2025

Regeneration Discovery May One Day Inform Hearing Loss Treatment

Zebrafish hair cells regrow via cyclin gene activity in specific cells, offering clues to future hearing restoration in humans.

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10 June 2025

New Study Uncovers Vulnerabilities of Lethal Fungal Pathogen

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15 May 2025

Stowers Institute in KC is leading research on stem cells and cancer treatment

From KSHB, for the last 25 years, the Li Lab at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research in Kansas City, Missouri, has taken part in groundbreaking research related to stem cells and the role it plays in cancer treatment. Their next 25 years are just as promising.

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03 March 2025

Investigator Julia Zeitlinger, Ph.D., named co-chair of the 2025 ASBMB meeting

The meeting will focus on core life processes from a gene expression, developmental and evolutionary perspective

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11 February 2025

Understanding the science of daily stress

From NPR's "Short Wave" podcast, In this excerpt from our podcast "Seeking A Scientist," host Kate the Chemist set out to understand the science behind everyday stress and some helpful ways to cope.

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14 January 2025

Howard Hughes Medical Institute Names 25 New Hanna H. Gray Fellows

From Forbes, Stowers Institute Postdoc Riley Galton, Ph.D., named Hanna H. Gray Fellow

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20 November 2024

Stowers President appears on "There's Just Something About Kansas City" Podcast

From "There's Just Something about Kansas City," Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado is the President and Chief Scientific Officer of the Stowers Institute. World renowned for his groundbreaking work in regenerative biology, Dr. Sanchez Alvarado is the leader in exploring the mysteries of life and the potential for organisms to regenerate damaged tissues.

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01 November 2024

Stowers Institute launches AI initiative to help accelerate, expand discoveries

From the Kansas City Business Journal, The Stowers Institute for Medical Research is turning to artificial intelligence to more rapidly make discoveries about human health and disease.

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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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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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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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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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