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How an antiviral immune reaction can go too far

How an antiviral immune reaction can go too far

5/23/2020

White blood cells sacrifice themselves to ensnare invaders in a sticky NET (neutrophil extracellular trap), but in COVID-19, NETs may hurt us. Read the story »

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Teachers make genomes more useful… from home

5/21/2020

Researchers and educators participated in an online annotation jamboree to help researchers understand the corn genome. Read the story »

Why pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma is so lethal

5/19/2020

CSHL researchers discovered factors that allow a pancreatic cell to lose its identity and turn into an aggressive cancer cell. Read the story »

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Smoking increases SARS-CoV-2 receptors in the lung

5/18/2020

An increase in lung ACE2 may explain why smokers are particularly vulnerable to COVID-19. Read the story »

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Coronavirus research in plants

5/15/2020

Purified coronavirus proteins are in short supply for COVID-19 researchers, so CSHL plant scientists are jumping in to make them. Read the story »

How to tune out common odors and focus on important ones

5/11/2020

The fly brain uses a simple computing trick to ignore prevalent odors and focus on newer but rarer odorants. Read the story »

Illustration of a couple dozen different breeds of dogs

Dog adaptations are like brain adaptations

5/6/2020

To understand autism, CSHL Professor Michael Wigler thinks about how biological systems adapt over generations. Read the story »

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One experiment: DNA barcoding

4/14/2020

High school students at the DNA Learning Center collect, process, and sequence the DNA, contributing to the scientific record of biodiversity. Read the story »

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Predicting the evolution of genetic mutations

4/14/2020

CSHL quantitative biologists have designed a computational approach for predicting the evolution of a rapidly mutating virus or cancer. Read the story »

Images of ‘invisible’ holes on cells may jumpstart research

3/3/2020

Cellular pores, once impossible to see, have been imaged for the first time. This sets the stage for new discoveries about blood pressure and pain. Read the story »

image of a cell divison time lapse from Jason Sheltzer

Extra chromosomes in cancers can be good or bad

2/24/2020

Extra chromosomes are typical in cancerous tumor cells, but not all extra copies promote cancer growth. Read the story »

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Mutation’s role in blood cancers revealed by ideal team-up

1/31/2020

Researchers from CSHL and MSKCC have determined how a mutation implicated in many blood cancers reduces the proteins that make healthy blood cells. Read the story »

3D image of CALHM (calcium homeostasis modulators) pore

New look at odd holes involved in taste, Alzheimer’s, asthma

1/27/2020

Large holes in our cells have been implicated in depression, Alzehimer’s disease, asthma, and even taste. Now, we know what two of these pores look like. Read the story »

New tool for investigating brain cells, Parkinson’s, & more

1/22/2020

Researchers have crafted a compound for targeting specific brain cell receptors, creating new opportunities to study the brain and Parkinson’s disease. Read the story »

Vitamin B6, leukemia’s deadly addiction

1/13/2020

Acute Myeloid Leukemia is addicted to vitamin B6. Now that researchers know this, they can pursue new treatment options for the deadly blood cancer. Read the story »

How an antiviral immune reaction can go too far

How an antiviral immune reaction can go too far

Teachers make genomes more useful… from home

Why pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma is so lethal

Smoking increases SARS-CoV-2 receptors in the lung

Coronavirus research in plants

How to tune out common odors and focus on important ones

Dog adaptations are like brain adaptations

One experiment: DNA barcoding

Predicting the evolution of genetic mutations

Images of ‘invisible’ holes on cells may jumpstart research

Extra chromosomes in cancers can be good or bad

Mutation’s role in blood cancers revealed by ideal team-up

New look at odd holes involved in taste, Alzheimer’s, asthma

New tool for investigating brain cells, Parkinson’s, & more

Vitamin B6, leukemia’s deadly addiction

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