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17 May 2023
20 years after scientists finished the sequencing of the first human genome, scientists around the world — including from the Stowers Institute in Kansas City — have taken another monumental step.
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16 May 2023
A behind the scenes look into using veiled chameleons as a research organism.
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09 May 2023
From The University of Missouri, Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado, Ph.D., gave a keynote presentation at the Division of Research, Innovation and Impact’s Celebration of Excellence in Research and Creative Activity.
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05 May 2023
From the Kansas City Business Journal, The Stowers Institute for Medical Research recently hired three principal investigators, luring them away from universities on the East Coast.
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04 April 2023
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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29 March 2023
Featured in PNAS, Sánchez Alvarado is renowned for his pioneering work in understanding the fundamental processes underlying animal regeneration.
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03 March 2023
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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03 March 2023
From Flatlandkc.org, New Facilities Culminate Decades-Long Quest in Kansas City.
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24 February 2023
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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22 February 2023
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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14 February 2023
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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02 February 2023
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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26 January 2023
From KCUR, the changes in the fishes’ muscle metabolism could help shed light on the long-term effects of physical inactivity in humans.
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22 January 2023
From KCTV5, Stowers Investigator, Kausik Si, PhD, delivered a STEM talk about his work studying memory.
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20 January 2023
The Genetics Society of America (GSA) is excited to announce the latest cohort of student, postdoc, and early-career research leaders joining the Early Career Leadership Program.
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19 December 2022
The competition, currently in its 12th year, showcases the very best videos and time-lapse photography from under the microscope.
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14 December 2022
From CTV News, research into selfish genes could one day be used to fight diseases, especially those that can be transferred between insects, animals and humans.
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13 December 2022
From KCTV5, Kausik Si's groundbreaking research could have major implications for how Alzheimer’s and dementia patients are treated.
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18 November 2022
From the Kansas City Business Journal, BioMed Valley Discoveries has a unique relationship with the Stowers Institute that allows it to focus on moving new discoveries closer to treatment instead of raising money.
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18 November 2022
From Stat News, Nectar bats may have nature’s biggest sweet tooth. Each night, the creatures scour the jungle for blossoming flowers in order to consume as much as 150% of their body weight in liquid sugar.
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17 November 2022
From KSHB 41, there's a world-class science facility conducting research that could have a massive impact on the search for a cure to this burdensome disease.
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14 November 2022
From STAT News, STAT celebrates the unheralded heroes of science and medicine, poring over hundreds of nominations from across North America in search for the next generation of scientific superstars.
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02 November 2022
Stowers Scientific Illustrator, Mark Miller, is featured in this piece from Healthy Kansas City
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17 October 2022
Kansas City Business Journal
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