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10 April 2024
Five Stowers researchers receive prestigious grants
Four postdoctoral researcher associates and one visiting scientist were recently awarded prestigious grants to accelerate their research.
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03 April 2024
Human chromosome central regions show extensive variation
Collaborative study helps enlighten a paradox regarding chromosome transmission, potentially leading to a greater understanding of how variations in these regions underlie genome instability and disease
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27 March 2024
An eye for an eye: The apple snail
The apple snail offers a way to study development and regeneration, providing insight to understand aspects of our own biology, and may one day help identify opportunities to induce regenerative capabilities in humans.
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20 March 2024
Maternal support: Helping offspring get off to the right start
New research examines the critical transition in development common to all animals—when a zygote switches from using maternally-supplied RNA to the point in time it can transcribe its own RNA.
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15 March 2024
Postdoc Profile: Tathagata Biswas
Q&A with Tathagata Biswas: "In science, there is no such thing as a stupid question."
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06 March 2024
Stowers Investigator joins Linda Hall Library Women in STEM Series
"I’m excited to help bring up the next generation of scientists to ask important questions of life."
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05 March 2024
Road to Research: A Q&A with Genomics Scientist Sofia Robb
"I want to help scientists realize that more connections between more species is beneficial to their work, to everyone’s work."
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29 February 2024
Rare Disease Day: A Q&A with Stowers Investigator Jennifer Gerton
"We hope to provide insights into the basic molecular functions of these genes that can someday be harnessed to help people with mutations and their families."
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21 February 2024
Postdoc Profile: Emma Rangel-Huerta
Q&A with Emma Rangel-Huerta: "Follow your heart! Never lose passion for exploration."
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20 February 2024
Stowers Graduate School recruiting for inaugural Computational Biology Scholars Program
The Computational Biology Scholars Program seeks to create new possibilities to perform cutting-edge, collaborative, and multidisciplinary computational science in the Midwest.
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09 February 2024
Stowers Investigator awarded prestigious MIRA grant
Stowers Associate Investigator SaraH Zanders received the Maximizing Investigators' Research Award (MIRA) from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)
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08 February 2024
#TechTalk: New Confocal Fluorescence Microscope at the Stowers Institute
Q&A with Tom Kleist, Ph.D, a member of the Institute’s Microscopy Technology Center
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31 January 2024
Road to Research: A Q&A with Scientific Project Manager Jason Morrison
"I was familiar with the Stowers Institute’s reputation for scientific excellence and intellectual freedom. I knew that was the type of environment in which I wanted to work."
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24 January 2024
Evolutionary insights from a sea monster: The Sea Lamprey
The sea lamprey is a valuable research organism for exploring evolution
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17 January 2024
Postdoc Profile: Michael Church
Q&A with Stowers Postdoc Michael Church: “When I got the opportunity to join the Workman Lab, I jumped at the chance.”
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03 January 2024
Waste not, want not: Silk moths do it differently by recycling
A different meiotic mechanism, likely common to all female species of moths and butterflies, holds chromosomes together until they are ready to segregate.
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21 December 2023
2023 in images
Take a look back at some notable scientific images produced by Stowers scientists that we shared in 2023
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20 December 2023
2023 in Review
Follow along as we highlight 2023 and impactful scientific discoveries ranging from the origins of Huntington’s and infertility to animal evolution and adaptation.
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13 December 2023
Where the wild things are: Planarian flatworms
Planarian flatworms could unlock the secrets to how we may—someday in the future—regrow a damaged or missing limb or repair an organ, potentially transforming the lives of the generations to come.
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13 December 2023
The Great Planarian Hunt
“For any complex question, we always need to go back to nature and ask, can we find the right organism that may provide an answer?”
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04 December 2023
Good things come in small packages: A geometry solution for organizing the center of human chromosomes
Centromeres—specific regions of DNA typically located near the center of chromosomes—achieve a common core structure to ensure proper alignment and segregation of chromosomes during cell division.
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30 November 2023
Postdoc Profile: Riley Galton
Q&A with Stowers Postdoc Riley Galton: "It was really important to me to find a place where I could do top-notch research in an open and collaborative environment."
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16 November 2023
Road to Research: Q&A with Kaity Petentler, Associate Scientist II in Sequencing and Discovery Genomics
"I then made it my goal to be a part of the Stowers Institute one day!"
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26 October 2023
Call of the wild: (Un)ordinary Organisms
By coaxing out the secrets underlying (un)ordinary biological feats of research organisms—like whole-body regeneration in the case of planarian flatworms—Stowers scientists are investigating how life works at its most fundamental level to ultimately understand human health and find treatments for diseases.
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