Joan W. Conaway elected to the National Academy of Sciences

The Stowers Institute for Medical Research is pleased to announce that Joan Weliky Conaway, PhD, a Stowers Investigator since 2001, has been elected a member of the prestigious National Academy of Sciences (NAS) for her distinguished and continuing...
27-Apr-2020 5:35 PM EDT Add to Favorites

What’s old is new again

Drug resistance is a major obstacle in cancer treatment—leading to relapse for many patients. In a new study, published online April 20, 2020, in Nature Cell Biology, researchers from the Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Children’s Mercy...
20-Apr-2020 3:55 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Technologies Converge on Interacting Surfaces in Protein Complexes

Researchers at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research 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.
9-Apr-2020 4:00 PM EDT Add to Favorites

How the historically misunderstood amyloid helps to store memories

For the first time, scientists from the Stowers Institute for Medical Research and collaborators have described the structure of an endogenously sourced, functioning neuronal amyloid at atomic resolution. The amyloid is composed of self-aggregated...
11-Mar-2020 6:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Zeroing in on how a tumor suppressor protein is cast away

Researchers from the Stowers Institute for Medical Research have uncovered new details about several proteins implicated in tumor growth and metastasis, opening a potential avenue for the development of treatments for diseases such as breast cancer.
21-Oct-2019 10:05 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Size Matters: How Cells Pack in Epithelial Tissues

Small-cell clones in proliferating epithelia – tissues that line all body surfaces – organize very differently than their normal-sized counterparts, according to a recent study from the Stowers Institute for Medical Research. Published online...
4-Sep-2019 11:00 AM EDT Add to Favorites

EMBO Laboratory Leadership Training Offered at the Stowers Institute

This October, the Stowers Institute for Medical Research will host a session of the EMBO Laboratory Leadership for Group Leaders Course at its campus in Kansas City, Missouri.
19-Aug-2019 2:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Super-resolution microscopy illuminates associations between chromosomes

KANSAS CITY, MO—Thanks to super-resolution microscopy, scientists have now been able to unambiguously identify physical associations between human chromosomes. The findings have brought to light a new understanding to a curious observation first...
3-Jul-2019 11:45 AM EDT Add to Favorites

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