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04 October 2023
Looking for innovative climate solutions? Check out these 8 podcasts
From NPR, The Stowers Institute's podcast 'Seeking a Scientist' was featured in 8 climate-related podcasts to listen to
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29 September 2023
The tiny worm at the heart of regeneration science
From NPR's Short Wave: A tiny flatworm that regenerates entire organs. A South American snail that can regrow its eyes. A killifish that suspends animation in dry weather and reanimates in water. These are the organisms at the heart of regeneration science. How they do these things is a mystery to scientists. But molecular biologists like Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado believe they may hold the answers to regeneration in humans.
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28 September 2023
“Science2Art" Exhibit at Linda Hall Library features Stowers Predoc
From KC Studio Magazine, Michay Diez of the Stowers Institute for Medical Research submitted “Fluorescent Chromosomes,” a work in gold with black and white accents against a scarlet field. Bold and vibrant as graffiti, the fluorescent image enables study of DNA chromosomes that may uncover their role in disease.
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06 September 2023
Utilizing Primary Cell Lines and 3D Cell Models to Better Represent a Living System
From Lab Manager, Chongbei Zhao, PhD, the head of Cells, Tissues, and Organoids Center at Stowers Institute explains some of the considerations surrounding different cell models and use of tissue culture in medical research.
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07 August 2023
Selfish, Virus-Like DNA Can Carry Genes Between Species
From Quanta, Investigator SaraH Zanders provides expert commentary on selfish genes.
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13 July 2023
Science meets social in new podcast “Seeking a Scientist”
From KCTV5, Science is all around us and yet much of how the world works remains a mystery. Dr. Randall Hoffman, an investigator with the Stowers Institute, and Kate Biberdorf the host of the new podcast “Seeking a Scientist” join the show to talk about the importance of science and “Kate the Chemists’” big social media following.
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10 July 2023
Stowers Institute scientist studies fruit flies to find out how memories are made
From KSHB, Stowers Investigator Kausik Si, Ph.D., said he's researching what keeps memories alive and is studying Alzheimer’s and the loss of memory. His research led him to amyloids. He looks into why the brain makes them and why they cause disease.
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10 July 2023
Kansas City scientists at the Stowers Institute researching memory diseases find breakthrough
From KSHB, Scientists at the Stowers Institute are trying to understand neurological diseases because they know the toll it takes on families. Now, they've made a major breakthrough.
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10 July 2023
A Tiny Discovery Could Revolutionize Research Into Neurodegenerative Diseases
From Discover Magazine, Scientists at the Stowers Institute pinned down a fleeting molecular quirk that's responsible for a certain type of nerve damage, ending a decades-long quest.
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30 June 2023
Stowers and KCUR Podcast "Seeking a Scientist" on Fox4 KC
From Fox4 KC, The podcast is helping bring STEM education to people all of all ages who may not find science relatable or accessible in their own communities.
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29 June 2023
Local scientific discovery could lead to better treatments for Huntington’s and other diseases
From KCTV5, Researchers at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research have made a stunning discovery that could change the way Huntington’s, Parkinson’s and even Alzheimer’s disease are treated.
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23 June 2023
Why researchers are searching for the drama queens of the animal kingdom
From NPR's "Short Wave" podcast: For generations, scientists have leaned on seven key species — so-called model organisms — for research. But advancements in technology mean biologists are exploring increasingly complex questions, and that requires more specialized and niche model organisms like finches.
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23 June 2023
A shot at survival: mNRA technology could be key to vaccine for pancreatic cancer
From KCTV5, Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado explained the RNA turns into a protein that then tackles the disease. He showed KCTV5 an experiment he conducted using flatworms. On the digital image generated, the worm’s movement changes when MRNA is applied.
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21 June 2023
Kansas City-based scientists have discovered how Huntington's disease starts
From KCUR, Associate Investigator Randal Halfmann, Ph.D., say protein deposits in the brain called amyloids play a role in diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. The new research from the was able to determine the first step in amyloid formation for Huntington's disease.
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19 June 2023
Huntington's spreads like 'fire in the brain.' Scientists say they've found the spark
From NPR, Diseases like Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and Huntington's are caused by toxic clumps of proteins that spread through the brain like a forest fire.Now scientists say they've figured out how the fire starts in at least one of these diseases. They've also shown how it can be extinguished.
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19 June 2023
Study found how to stop the proteins that cause Huntington's disease
From KCBS Radio, Scientists have been looking into the events that cause diseases like Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and Huntington's for years.Now, a recent study seems to have figured out how at least one of those diseases starts and perhaps how to stop it as well.For a closer look at this, Margie Shafer spoke with Randal Halfmann, Associate Investigator at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research in Kansas City and one of the authors of the study.
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25 May 2023
The people behind the papers – Zainab Afzal and Robb Krumlauf
A new paper in Development introduces new approaches and provides further insights into the transcriptional mechanisms controlling Hox gene expression during vertebrate development.
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17 May 2023
How Kansas City scientists are helping to expand our understanding of human genetics
20 years after scientists finished the sequencing of the first human genome, scientists around the world — including from the Stowers Institute in Kansas City — have taken another monumental step.
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16 May 2023
Behind the Paper: How do veiled chameleons make their left and right sides?
A behind the scenes look into using veiled chameleons as a research organism.
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09 May 2023
Celebrating researchers, creators
From The University of Missouri, Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado, Ph.D., gave a keynote presentation at the Division of Research, Innovation and Impact’s Celebration of Excellence in Research and Creative Activity.
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05 May 2023
Stowers Institute hires three scientists from East Coast universities
From the Kansas City Business Journal, The Stowers Institute for Medical Research recently hired three principal investigators, luring them away from universities on the East Coast.
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04 April 2023
Stowers researchers use AI, fruit flies to make major biological breakthroughs
From KCTV5 (CBS), Julia Zeitlinger, Ph.D., and her team are working to extract information from DNA, which would normally take decades to accomplish with experiments. Now, thanks to artificial intelligence, it’s as if someone hit the fast-forward button and results are now down to minutes if not seconds.
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29 March 2023
Profile of Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado: Winner of the 2023 Vilcek Prize in biomedical science
Featured in PNAS, Sánchez Alvarado is renowned for his pioneering work in understanding the fundamental processes underlying animal regeneration.
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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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