15 May 2025

Stowers Institute appoints new Investigator and Fellow to explore protein evolution and the origins of cellular complexity

Arvind Pillai, Ph.D., from the University of Washington, and Friederike Benning, Ph.D., from Harvard University/Massachusetts General Hospital, will join the Institute in Fall 2025

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30 April 2025

Stowers Investigator elected to the National Academy of Sciences

Jerry Workman, Ph.D., a pioneer in the field of gene regulation, receives one of the highest honors awarded to scientists worldwide.

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27 March 2025

Stowers Institute President and Chief Scientific Officer named Hypothesis Fund Scout

Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado, Ph.D., receives recognition as a leader and expert in regenerative biology and its potential to transform human health.

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17 March 2025

Stowers scientists uncover principles underlying the toxicity of “selfish” genes

The findings may help scientists better understand infertility, neurodegeneration, and evolution.

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08 January 2025

Stowers Institute Postdoc selected as HHMI Hanna H. Gray Fellow

Riley Galton, Ph.D., studies a phenomenon that allows many vertebrates – from sharks to mammals – to “pause” their development in response to environmental changes, sometimes for months or even years

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26 September 2024

Stowers scientists uncover a critical component that helps killifish regenerate their fins

The findings are a step toward closing the gap on how we could one day deploy regenerative medicine in humans

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28 August 2024

Stowers scientists show bats are surviving and thriving on nothing but sugar

The team of researchers recorded the highest natural blood sugar levels ever observed in a mammal, now they hope it could help them better understand diabetes.

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22 July 2024

Exposing dengue’s invasion strategies

Stowers scientists uncover fundamental rules for how dengue virus infects its mosquito and human hosts, providing hope for identifying therapeutic approaches

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30 April 2024

Stowers Institute appoints new Principal Investigator

Kamena Kostova, Ph.D., a molecular biologist from Carnegie Science, will open her lab at the Stowers Institute in Fall 2024.

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25 March 2024

The Graduate School of the Stowers Institute names new President

The Stowers Graduate School Board of Directors names Matt Gibson, Ph.D., as President

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14 March 2024

Overeating and starving both damage the liver: Cavefish provide new insight into fatty liver disease

Stowers scientists’ collaboration reveals a genetic basis for starvation-induced fatty liver with a potential therapeutic avenue

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21 February 2024

Stowers Scientific Director Kausik Si receives coveted award from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative

Scientific Director Kausik Si from the Stowers Institute for Medical Research alongside Investigator Lukasz Joachimiak from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center received CZI's Collaborative Pairs Pilot Project Awards grant for their project titled, “Tuning memory by altering amyloids.”

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21 February 2024

An awkward family reunion: Sea monsters are our cousins

Stowers scientists uncover how sea lamprey brain development is remarkably similar to that of humans

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20 October 2023

Why do some men not produce sperm?

Stowers scientists collaborate to uncover one underlying reason for male infertility

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23 August 2023

Stowers scientists find evidence of unintended impacts from anti-cancer drugs

Could potentially improve success rate of cancer drug development

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13 June 2023

Investigating the evolution of animal developmental mechanisms shows how some of Earth's earliest animals evolved

How did ancient animals develop from egg to adult, and to what extent have the genetic mechanisms that guide embryonic development endured across millennia?

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13 June 2023

New research reveals the start of Huntington’s disease

Stowers scientists deduce the initiating structure of the amyloid implicated in Huntington’s and present a potential therapeutic treatment approach.

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06 June 2023

Investigating the placenta: Discovery from Stowers Scientists shows why this often-overlooked organ should be given more attention

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04 May 2023

Stowers scientists discover the dynamics of an “extra” chromosome in fruit flies

Offers unique opportunity to study similar chromosomes linked to cancer and infertility in humans

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03 May 2023

New Investigators join Stowers Institute for Medical Research

Scientists recruited from MIT, NYU, and Princeton

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19 April 2023

Stowers Institute and KCUR launch new podcast

Dr. Kate Biberdorf, also known as Kate the Chemist, and her guests guide us through the great unknown.

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24 January 2023

Stowers scientists use cavefish to learn about metabolism and the evolutionary basis of being a couch potato

Researchers have discovered what prolonged physical inactivity may mean for humans many thousands of years down the road by studying cavefish.

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07 December 2022

How selfish genes succeed

Research on selfish genes provides new insight on meiotic drive systems

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19 October 2022

Discovery of 119-million-year-old selfish genes in yeast potentially alters our understanding of how parasitic DNA impacts genome evolution

Meiotic drivers, a type of selfish gene, are indeed selfish. Present in the genomes of nearly all species, including humans, they unfairly transfer their genetic material to more than half of their offspring.

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