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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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04 June 2024
Three insights regarding regeneration
Learn what regeneration is, why scientists at the Stowers Institute study it, and discover the incredible regenerative capacity of research organisms in our latest installment of our #BioBasics series!
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30 May 2024
A full circle moment: Stowers Investigator named Co-Director of Embryology Course at the Marine Biological Laboratory
Nearly 30 years after taking the MBL's esteemed Embryology course as a student, Tatjana Piotrowski, Ph.D., has been named Co-Director.
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23 May 2024
Stowers scientist providing new insight into ALS
Though presently incurable, research from Stowers Associate Investigator Randal Halfmann, Ph.D., is helping improve our understanding of how the ALS amyloid protein that forms aggregates in the brain first starts. Recently, the team made an unexpected, exciting discovery that offers hope for the future.
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10 May 2024
Road to Research: A Q&A with Associate Scientist Olivia Lynch
“I am fortunate to work at a place where we are all able to collectively contribute to realizing the vision and mission of our founders, Jim and Virginia Stowers.”
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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 April 2024
Stowers Institute hosts Stowers Research Conference: Molecular Cell Biology - RNA Regulation
More than 75 attendees, including 20 speakers consisting of Principal Investigators and their trainees, attended the three-day event.
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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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