25 April 2024

Five facts about DNA 

What exactly is DNA? And how does it relate to research at the Stowers Institute?

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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18 October 2023

That’s a wrap: Stem Cells, Tissue Plasticity, and Regenerative Biology

Stowers Research Conferences bring together leading scientists in the field including mentors and their trainees in a format designed to facilitate discussion and exchange of ideas

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12 October 2023

How artificial intelligence is transforming the future of science and medicine

A bioinformatician’s journey using AI at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research

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03 October 2023

A lab with a view

The Stowers Institute for Medical Research has a new laboratory—with an ocean view.

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26 September 2023

Road to Research: A Q&A with new Assistant Investigator Neşet Özel

"We cannot overstate the importance of basic neurobiological research in terms of its potential to help against a variety of neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative diseases."

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30 August 2023

#TechTalk: Q&A with Chongbei Zhao, Head, Media Preparation, Cells, Tissues, and Organoids Center, and Genome Engineering

Chongbei Zhao shares more about how her role at the Institute supports our labs and scientific research.

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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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23 May 2023

Stowers scientist’s battle with breast cancer comes full circle

Heather Marshall's decades-long professional pursuit of studying mice became intertwined with her personal journey to conquer cancer.

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11 May 2023

The Graduate School of the Stowers Institute celebrates graduates

The ceremony celebrated the accomplishments and future endeavors of the graduates who are continuing their scientific discoveries at cutting edge industry positions and at academic institutions including Harvard University, the Mayo Clinic, University of Pennsylvania, Northwestern University, and The Rockefeller University.

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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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06 April 2023

#LookInTheLab: How scientists in the Zeitlinger Lab use computational approaches to learn the fate of cells

Kaelan Brennan is a predoctoral researcher in the Zeitlinger Lab at the Stowers Institute. He provided a “Look in the Lab” to showcase the research the team is currently conducting.

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