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The Stowers Institute for Medical Research aspires to be one of the most innovative biomedical research organizations in the world. The Institute conducts basic research on genes and proteins that control fundamental processes in living cells to unlock the mysteries of disease and find the keys to their causes, treatment, and prevention.

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07-Aug-2018 | science

New research opens door to expanding stem cells available for transplants

Researchers from the Stowers Institute for Medical Research and collaborators have identified a way to expand blood-forming, adult stem cells from human ...

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07-Jun-2017 | science

Genetic cross-talk key to cell balance

Competing regulatory genes "talk" to each other to maintain balance of cell state, according to new research from the Stowers Institute for Medical ...

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14-Apr-2014 | science

Planaria deploy an ancient gene expression program

As multicellular creatures go, planaria worms are hardly glamorous. To say they appear rudimentary is more like it. These tiny aquatic flatworms that troll ...

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04-Apr-2014 | science

Going global

Stowers team reports genome-wide analysis of genes that drive cell division in a multicellular organism

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12-Feb-2014 | science

Conserved nuclear envelope protein uses a shuttle service

Researchers at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research have glimpsed two proteins working together inside living cells to facilitate communication ...

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08-Oct-2013 | science

Dampened mTOR signaling with the developmental disorder Roberts syndrome

Children born with developmental disorders called cohesinopathies can suffer severe consequences, including intellectual disabilities, limb shortening, ...

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16-Aug-2013 | science

Urgent! How genes tell cellular construction crews, 'Read me now!'

When egg and sperm combine, the new embryo bustles with activity. Its cells multiply so rapidly they largely ignore their DNA, other than to copy it and to ...

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