14 December 2022

Stowers Investigator discusses memory research providing hope to Alzheimer’s patients on KU Hospital’s Morning Medical Update

Kausik Si, Ph.D. explains how his work studying memory is proposing a new theory when it comes to understanding Alzheimer’s and dementia.

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17 November 2022

#TechTalk: New Technology at Stowers helps identify biomolecules

Charles Banks is a scientist in the Stowers Institute’s Systems Mass Spectrometry Technology Center. We sat down with him to learn more about a new instrument Stowers members have access to—the timsTOF flex MALDI-2.

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08 November 2022

Cheating to win

The wtf meiotic driver gene family has been cheating—and winning —for over 100 million years

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07 November 2022

Stowers Investigator Jennifer Gerton wins KU Cancer Center Director’s Award

Investigator Jennifer Gerton, PhD, has been awarded The University of Kansas Cancer Center’s 2022 Director's Award for Basic Science.

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19 October 2022

Stowers Executive Director wins 2023 Vilcek Prize in Biomedical Science

The Stowers Institute for Medical Research is proud to announce that Executive Director and Chief Scientific Officer, Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado, Ph.D., is the recipient of the 2023 Vilcek Foundation Prize in Biomedical Science.

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21 September 2022

One percent reimagined

While Stowers’ scientists are tackling the foundations for how life works to improve life’s quality, the Chouinards are helping ensure that there will be a life worth improving.

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24 August 2022

Stowers Postdoc named HHMI Hanna H. Gray Fellow

Jasmin Camacho, PhD, a postdoctoral researcher at the Stowers Institute received coveted Hanna H. Gray Fellow award from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

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18 August 2022

Welcoming our new class

The 2022 Graduate School class of predoctoral researchers have arrived at Stowers and begun the adventure that will ultimately lead to a Ph.D. in biology.

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18 August 2022

How does a jellyfish pack such a tiny sting?

Research from the lab of Stowers Investigator Matt Gibson, PhD was recently featured in an article in the September 2022 issue of Scientific American.

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18 August 2022

Blind cavefish may trade color for energy

The September 2022 issue of Scientific American features an article titled, "Blind Cave Fish May Trade Color for Energy."

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04 August 2022

Discovery of a new flatworm?

Peculiar planarian features and functions identified in flatworms from Guanajuato, Mexico

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26 July 2022

Decoding craniofacial defects

Recent studies link severe craniofacial disorders to disruptions during development

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28 June 2022

Stinging starlet sea anemones

Modeling the makeup and mechanism of cnidarian stingers

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22 June 2022

The switch-like nature of the immune system

Immune cells respond to danger in an “all-or-none” fashion via protein aggregation

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14 June 2022

Stowers welcomes 2022 ASBMB PROLAB winner to the Bazzini Lab

Pallarés, a PhD student, will arrive at the Stowers Institute in July after being named a 2022 PROLAB winner.

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09 June 2022

Stowers and UCLA collaboration yields new insights into planarian genetics

A chromosome in a fresh-water flatworm is primed for evolution into a sex chromosome.

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27 May 2022

Stowers’ vision becomes a dream for scientists

The Stowers Institute puts the focus on the work, not finding money, and has built local life sciences culture in the process.

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19 May 2022

She doesn’t mind being called Batwoman

When Jasmin Camacho, PhD, arrived at Stowers in 2020, she brought with her a passion for animals. That passion first manifested itself in her childhood desire to become a veterinarian.

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13 May 2022

Researchers look to cavefish for insight into metabolism

Genomic analysis of cavefish DNA provides clues to their unique metabolic adaptations

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06 May 2022

Stowers Graduate School President Betty Drees receives national ACP award for advancing careers of women in medicine

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04 May 2022

What sets us apart: How research at the Stowers Institute benefits from unique relationship with American Century Investments

American Century Investments CEO, Jonathan Thomas, recently spoke with 401k Specialist Magazine. He highlighted how the world-class research happening at the Stowers Institute is made possible.

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14 April 2022

Uncovering mechanisms of regeneration

In zebrafish, three sequential phases are discovered to control hair cell regeneration

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31 March 2022

Completing the sequence

Stowers Institute researchers help assemble the complete human genome

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