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Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, powers transformational discoveries in Cancer, Genomics, Neuroscience, Artificial Intelligence, Plant Biology & Quantitative Biology by educating and empowering scientific pioneers.

CSHL provides a powerful and productive environment to Discover, Develop, Connect & Share world-changing ideas that advance the field of bioscience — for more than 100 years, today and into the future.

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— Featured Story

Featured Story

January 8, 2026

Short-circuiting pancreatic cancer

Applying CSHL researchers’ new RNA therapeutic is “like killing three birds with one stone.”

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Events

Jan 26, 2026

Annual CSHL Association Board Meeting

The Association Board and CSHL President Bruce Stillman invite you to attend the CSHLA Board's next annual meeting.

New mass spec innovation could transform research

News

Jan 06, 2026

New mass spec innovation could transform research

A new mass spectrometry technique developed by CSHL’s Cifani lab could provide researchers with more detailed scans than ever before.

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Cocktails & Chromosomes – ‘No Eyes, No Brain, No Problem — How Plants See the World and What They Can Teach Us’

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Jan 28, 2026

Cocktails & Chromosomes – ‘No Eyes, No Brain, No Problem — How Plants See the World and What They Can Teach Us’

The new 2026 season of Cocktails & Chromosomes is here! We have moved to Six Harbors Brewing Company in Huntington.

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