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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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03 March 2023
KC Emerging as a Life Sciences Powerhouse
From Flatlandkc.org, New Facilities Culminate Decades-Long Quest in Kansas City.
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24 February 2023
Evolution Turns These Knobs to Make a Hummingbird Hyperquick and a Cavefish Sluggishly Slow
From Scientific American, by tuning the enzymes that control the breakdown or storage of sugars, hummingbirds and cavefish adapt their metabolism to meet the demands of the vastly different environments in which they live
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22 February 2023
Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado: “Making the improbable possible”
From the Vilcek Foundation, Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado is the executive director and chief scientific officer of the Stowers Institute. A molecular and developmental biologist, his work focuses on the molecular, genetic, and cellular processes of regeneration in living organisms.
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14 February 2023
Slide-Seq Hits the Spatial Biology Market as Curio Seeker
From Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News, new spatial technology, Slide-seq, offers high resolution due to the platform’s minute barcoded beads and limited diffusion.
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02 February 2023
How will ‘couch potato’ humans evolve? Idle cavefish offer clues.
From the Washington Post, a species of fish washed by floods into dark Mexican caves has been essentially sheltering in place for the last 160,000 years, undergoing genetic changes that reset its metabolism.
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26 January 2023
Kansas City researchers say being a couch potato may affect evolution. Just ask these fish
From KCUR, the changes in the fishes’ muscle metabolism could help shed light on the long-term effects of physical inactivity in humans.
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22 January 2023
Stowers Institute Stem Seminar hosts youth
From KCTV5, Stowers Investigator, Kausik Si, PhD, delivered a STEM talk about his work studying memory.
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20 January 2023
Stowers Predoc appointed to GSA 2023 Early Career Leadership Program Cohort
The Genetics Society of America (GSA) is excited to announce the latest cohort of student, postdoc, and early-career research leaders joining the Early Career Leadership Program.
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19 December 2022
Nikon Small World in Motion Competition – Top 5 Winning Videos of 2022
The competition, currently in its 12th year, showcases the very best videos and time-lapse photography from under the microscope.
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14 December 2022
How dangerous 'selfish genes' succeed, according to new research
From CTV News, research into selfish genes could one day be used to fight diseases, especially those that can be transferred between insects, animals and humans.
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13 December 2022
KC scientist manipulates memories in animals, gives Overland Park Alzheimer’s patient hope
From KCTV5, Kausik Si's groundbreaking research could have major implications for how Alzheimer’s and dementia patients are treated.
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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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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
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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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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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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17 October 2022
Stowers research: How a jellyfish cousin's sting could improve delivery of medicine
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06 October 2022
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