01 January 2021

Sánchez Alvarado named Executive Director and Chief Scientific Officer for the Stowers Institute

The Stowers Institute for Medical Research announces that Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado, PhD, Investigator and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, has been named the Institute’s new Executive Director and Chief Scientific Officer.

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01 January 2021

A niche for the eye

What if degenerative eye conditions could be detected and treated before vision is impaired? Recent findings from the Xie Lab point to the ciliary body as a key to unlocking this possibility.

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28 December 2020

Functional amyloids: a “magical” protein state

How much maligned amyloids may be the key to our memories

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30 November 2020

Doubling down on protein complex modeling

Researchers at the Stowers Institute have developed an approach that integrates several technologies to build detailed structural models of protein complexes, which are made up of multiple proteins that assemble and work together to perform a biological function.

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17 November 2020

Small differences, big impact

Researchers in the Krumlauf Lab have identified a handful of variations in an amino acid sequence critical for retaining the ancestral function of a gene over the course of 600 million years of evolution.

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06 October 2020

Rohner, Zanders recognized for research contributions

Two early-career Stowers investigators, Nicolas Rohner, PhD, and Sarah Zanders, PhD, were recently recognized for having a significant impact on their fields.

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04 September 2020

Not your usual fish tale

A comparative study of two fish species offers important clues about vertebrate regeneration.

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01 September 2020

Stowers researchers supported by multiple mid-year award announcements

Several researchers at the Stowers Institute received award notifications during the past few months, including investigators, a postdoctoral researcher, and predoctoral researchers.

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14 August 2020

Survival of the fit-ish

A new study from the Zanders Lab describes a strategy that the S. pombe fission yeast genome can use to mitigate some of the worst effects conferred by parasitic gene elements known as meiotic drivers.

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07 August 2020

Scientists use CRISPR to knock down gene messages early in development

Scientists in the Bazzini Lab and collaborators have harnessed CRISPR technology to target gene messages in animal model embryos to gain a better understanding of the early stages of vertebrate development.

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20 July 2020

Immune system adaptations in cavefish may provide autoimmune disease insight

Researchers from the Stowers Institute see cavefish as a potential way to understand more about the rise in autoimmune diseases in humans.

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16 June 2020

Persistent DNA damage in the placenta affects pregnancy outcomes

Scientists at the Stowers Institute have shown that a dysfunctional placenta can play a previously unrecognized role during the earliest stages of development in mouse models

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27 April 2020

Joan W. Conaway elected to the National Academy of Sciences

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20 April 2020

What’s old is new again

The study’s researchers found that low doses of the anthracycline antibiotic doxorubicin inhibit the interaction between two molecular pathways that work closely together to promote tumor growth and resistance to therapy. The targeted approach also clears the way for cancer-targeting immune cells to do their work, an unexpected and novel finding, according to the study authors.

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14 April 2020

Technologies converge on interacting surfaces in protein complexes

Researchers at the Stowers Institute have fine-tuned a method to pinpoint surfaces within large multi-protein complexes that are close to, and likely to be directly interacting with, one another.

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06 April 2020

First quarter 2020 awards acknowledge research efforts

Assistant Investigator Randal Halfmann, PhD, was awarded a four-year grant from the NIH National Institute of General Medical Sciences.

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13 March 2020

How the historically misunderstood amyloid helps to store memories

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