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25 October 2023
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
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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24 October 2023
From Newsweek, the mysteries of why some men can't produce sperm are now closer to being solved by scientists. They have shed light on what might be going wrong in the process of sperm generation, according to a new study published in the journal Science Advances.
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20 October 2023
From KCUR, the research aims to to better understand how coral are being impacted by climate change and, hopefully, to find a way to keep these precious animals alive.
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11 October 2023
From KMBZ, Stowers President and Chief Scientific Officer Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado, Ph.D., and Predoctoral Research Kaelan Brennan discuss how Stowers uses AI to help advance research.
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04 October 2023
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
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
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
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
From Quanta, Investigator SaraH Zanders provides expert commentary on selfish genes.
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13 July 2023
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
A behind the scenes look into using veiled chameleons as a research organism.
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