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17 November 2025
From The Beacon, when the Institute opened its Kansas City headquarters in 2000, much of the scientific world was skeptical that biomedical research could succeed in the Midwest.
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28 October 2025
From the Gerton Lab,Scientists pinpointed the DNA sequence where human chromosomes fuse, solving a century-old mystery in genome biology.
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20 October 2025
From Scientific American, the Halfmann Lab shows a special class of immune proteins protect us from pathogens but also drive inflammation and cell death.
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16 October 2025
From ASBMB, the Zeitlinger Lab studies how protein transcription factors, or TFs, bind to DNA to regulate gene expression, using fruit flies as her model.
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16 October 2025
From The Scientist, research from the Sánchez Alvarado Lab shows stem cells in regenerating planarians don’t need their closest neighbors, overturning researchers’ understanding of the worms’ regenerative superpowers.
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10 October 2025
From NPR's All Things Considered, in the human body, cells are constantly making life-or-death decisions. If they make the wrong choice, the result can be cancer, infection or even Alzheimer's.
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06 October 2025
From the Kansas City Business Journal, Investigator Julia Zeitlinger named "20 to Know"
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30 September 2025
From Smithsonian Magazine, The sea lamprey looks like it’s from another planet, but this ancient creature has a surprising amount in common with humans.
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25 September 2025
The Interesting Engineering, researchers pinpoint the precise DNA breakpoint behind Robertsonian chromosomes, reshaping understanding of human genetics.
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25 September 2025
From, Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News, scientists in the Gerton Lab have now identified the precise location where human chromosomes break and recombine to form Robertsonian chromosomes.
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24 September 2025
From Fox4, Kansas City scientists in the Gerton Lab have made a “landmark” discovery that offers new insight into some cases of infertility, miscarriage and Down syndrome.
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24 September 2025
From KMBC, researchers in the Gerton Lab have, for the first time, identified the exact DNA breakpoint where two human chromosomes fuse together, forming an unusual bond known as a Robertsonian chromosome.
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24 September 2025
From Bioengineer.org, recent groundbreaking research from the Gerton Lab unveils pivotal understandings about human chromosomes, particularly focusing on the enigmatic Robertsonian chromosomes.
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24 September 2025
From The Scientist, for the first time, scientists in the Gerton Lab sequenced Robertsonian chromosomes, which can cause Down syndrome and cancer.
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24 September 2025
From The Washington Post, by examining “junk DNA,” scientists in the Gerton Lab are finding clues to understanding human biology.
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23 September 2025
From The Node, behind the paper stories from “A genetically tractable non-vertebrate system to study complete camera-type eye regeneration“
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23 September 2025
From KCTV5 CBS Kansas City, Scientists in the metro have found that there is a relationship between unnecessary inflammation and a long life. Dr. Randal Halfmann explains the very thing designed to prevent the body from illness may be a contributing factor in aging and chronic disease.
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23 September 2025
From The New York Times, The evolutionary blueprint for hands was borrowed in part from a much older genetic plan for our nether regions, a new study suggests.
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17 September 2025
From New Scientist, Inflammation is a vital part of the immune response, but it seems that the system can sometimes go awry, resulting in chronic inflammation that has been linked to conditions such as cancer.
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19 August 2025
From Nature, Scientists are seeking to decipher the role of non-coding DNA in the human genome, helped by a suite of artificial-intelligence tools.
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17 August 2025
From Le Monde, Researchers have studied the apple snail's surprising ability to reconstruct its entire eye after it has been cut off. Some 9,000 genes are expressed during this painstaking process.
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13 August 2025
Horacio Martín Pallarés, Ph.D., in the lab of Ariel Bazzini, Ph.D., a 2010 Pew Fellow, plans to bring his research on viral epidemics to aid his home country of Argentina.
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07 August 2025
From The Times, The golden apple snail has powerful regenerative abilities — and its eyes share many anatomical features with ours.
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06 August 2025
From IFL Science, pink eggs, regenerating eyes, and more snails than you can shake a stick at.
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