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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13 June 2023

Investigating the evolution of animal developmental mechanisms shows how some of Earth's earliest animals evolved

How did ancient animals develop from egg to adult, and to what extent have the genetic mechanisms that guide embryonic development endured across millennia?

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13 June 2023

New research reveals the start of Huntington’s disease

Stowers scientists deduce the initiating structure of the amyloid implicated in Huntington’s and present a potential therapeutic treatment approach.

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06 June 2023

Investigating the placenta: Discovery from Stowers Scientists shows why this often-overlooked organ should be given more attention

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23 May 2023

Stowers scientist’s battle with breast cancer comes full circle

Heather Marshall's decades-long professional pursuit of studying mice became intertwined with her personal journey to conquer cancer.

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11 May 2023

The Graduate School of the Stowers Institute celebrates graduates

The ceremony celebrated the accomplishments and future endeavors of the graduates who are continuing their scientific discoveries at cutting edge industry positions and at academic institutions including Harvard University, the Mayo Clinic, University of Pennsylvania, Northwestern University, and The Rockefeller University.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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24 January 2023

Stowers scientists use cavefish to learn about metabolism and the evolutionary basis of being a couch potato

Researchers have discovered what prolonged physical inactivity may mean for humans many thousands of years down the road by studying cavefish.

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23 January 2023

#LookInTheLab: From hearing loss to cancer, a glimpse into the Piotrowski Lab

Jeremy Sandler, Ph.D., a postdoctoral researcher at the Stowers Institute provided a #LookInTheLab highlighting the research happening in the Piotrowski Lab.

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19 October 2022

Discovery of 119-million-year-old selfish genes in yeast potentially alters our understanding of how parasitic DNA impacts genome evolution

Meiotic drivers, a type of selfish gene, are indeed selfish. Present in the genomes of nearly all species, including humans, they unfairly transfer their genetic material to more than half of their offspring.

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20 September 2022

Stowers scientists use zebrafish to understand the connection between the immune system and regeneration

New research used the highly regenerative zebrafish to investigate the timing and genetic programs of macrophages in the repair and regeneration of a zebrafish sensory organ.

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