Press Release
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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Press Release
03 May 2023
New Investigators join Stowers Institute for Medical Research
Scientists recruited from MIT, NYU, and Princeton
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News
24 April 2023
Investigating infertility today offers hope for the future
Foundational research at the Stowers Institute is leading to a greater understanding of many factors governing infertility with the goal of improving health, healthy outcomes, and providing hope for people facing this challenge.
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Podcast
19 April 2023
Seeking a Scientist: Can we reverse aging? These scientists are rethinking the limits of human lifespans
From KCUR and the Stowers Institute: We tend to think of getting older as inevitable, but what if it’s actually something we can control?
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Press Release
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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News
13 April 2023
#TechTalk: Q&A with Bret Redwine, Head of Custom Protein Resources
Bret Redwine is a scientist with the Stowers Institute’s Custom Protein Resources Center.
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News
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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In The News
04 April 2023
Stowers researchers use AI, fruit flies to make major biological breakthroughs
From KCTV5 (CBS), Julia Zeitlinger, Ph.D., and her team are working to extract information from DNA, which would normally take decades to accomplish with experiments. Now, thanks to artificial intelligence, it’s as if someone hit the fast-forward button and results are now down to minutes if not seconds.
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News
03 April 2023
Can studying sugar-loving bats benefit humans with diabetes?
Jasmin Camacho, Ph.D., conducts field work studying bats and brings her findings back to the Stowers Institute to learn the unique methods the animal uses to adapt to a sugar-only diet. She discussed her work on KU's Morning Medical Update.
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In The News
29 March 2023
Profile of Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado: Winner of the 2023 Vilcek Prize in biomedical science
Featured in PNAS, Sánchez Alvarado is renowned for his pioneering work in understanding the fundamental processes underlying animal regeneration.
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News
24 March 2023
Regeneration: Revised and optimized
New methods on planarian flatworm stem cells mark first step toward establishing transgenic planaria
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Video
17 March 2023
#StowersImpact: Overland Park woman honors mother, raises awareness for foundational research in the fight against Alzheimer’s
As part of the #StowersImpact campaign, the Stowers Institute for Medical Research teamed up with the Alzheimer’s Association Heart of America and Greater Missouri Chapter to put a face to the disease that impacts so many people.
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Video
14 March 2023
Stowers scientist talks power of the brain and research studying animal memory
Stowers Scientific Director, Kausik Si, Ph.D., recently appeared on the University of Kansas Hospital’s morning medical update discussing his research on the brain and memory as part of #BrainAwarenessWeek.
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News
14 March 2023
Five facts about memory and the brain
Memories of “firsts”—a first kiss, first love, first heartbreak—feel permanent. But why do we remember some moments yet forget others?
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In The News
03 March 2023
Local Biotech Company Has A $2 Billion Endowment And A Mission To “De-Risk” Research
From Kansas City Magazine, BioMed Valley Discoveries is funded by the Stowers Institute, a medical research institute also located in Kansas City, where scientists are able to pursue research without worrying about constantly searching for grant monies.
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In The News
03 March 2023
KC Emerging as a Life Sciences Powerhouse
From Flatlandkc.org, New Facilities Culminate Decades-Long Quest in Kansas City.
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News
24 February 2023
#TechTalk: Q&A with Zulin Yu, Head of Light Microscopy
Zulin Yu is a scientist in the Stowers Institute’s Microscopy Technology Center.
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In The News
24 February 2023
Evolution Turns These Knobs to Make a Hummingbird Hyperquick and a Cavefish Sluggishly Slow
From Scientific American, by tuning the enzymes that control the breakdown or storage of sugars, hummingbirds and cavefish adapt their metabolism to meet the demands of the vastly different environments in which they live
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In The News
22 February 2023
Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado: “Making the improbable possible”
From the Vilcek Foundation, Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado is the executive director and chief scientific officer of the Stowers Institute. A molecular and developmental biologist, his work focuses on the molecular, genetic, and cellular processes of regeneration in living organisms.
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In The News
14 February 2023
Slide-Seq Hits the Spatial Biology Market as Curio Seeker
From Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News, new spatial technology, Slide-seq, offers high resolution due to the platform’s minute barcoded beads and limited diffusion.
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News
02 February 2023
Unmasking five mysteries of metabolism
Stowers scientists are uncovering many mysteries underlying metabolism. Here we ask five questions to unravel metabolism and its complexities.
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In The News
02 February 2023
How will ‘couch potato’ humans evolve? Idle cavefish offer clues.
From the Washington Post, a species of fish washed by floods into dark Mexican caves has been essentially sheltering in place for the last 160,000 years, undergoing genetic changes that reset its metabolism.
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News
30 January 2023
#TechTalk: Q&A with Kevin Ferro, Scientist in Cytometry
Kevin Ferro is a scientist in the Stowers Institute’s Cytometry Technology Center.
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Video
27 January 2023
#LookInTheLab: How does our sense of smell work? The Yu Lab investigates the science of detecting odors
The lab investigates the complex connection between neurons that link sensation to behavior.
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