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At the Stowers Institute, our scientists ask the questions that others might set aside as too ambitious, too unconventional, or too far from an obvious answer.
What if we could understand how proteins drive aging? What if the unexplored depths of the ocean hold answers to questions about human health? What if artificial intelligence could accelerate life-saving biological discoveries in this decade?
Episode 1: What if...we didn't have to age?
The first story in the Stowers Institute’s new ‘What if?’ series follows Associate Investigator Randal Halfmann, PhD, in his search to understand aging and how nature may hold clues to healthier, longer lives.
The Stowers Institute's What if? campaign features the scientists bold enough to ask big questions in biology. Through each story you'll meet the researchers whose curiosity drives them into forests, coral reefs, chromosomes, and beyond, following ideas wherever the biology and their questions lead.
Some will take years to answer. Some may never be fully resolved. But each reflects the belief at the heart of the Stowers Institute: the most important discoveries begin not with a conclusion, but with the courage to wonder and ask.
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