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CRISPR primes goldenberry for fruit bowl fame

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CRISPR primes goldenberry for fruit bowl fame

12/12/2025

CSHL postdoc Miguel Santo Domingo uses gene editing to ready this gourmet food crop for large-scale agricultural production. Read the story »

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Gut health à la CAR T

12/11/2025

Wouldn’t you like to be able to eat the way you did when you were younger? A one-dose treatment could help rejuvenate and regenerate the intestines. Read the story »

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AI offers ‘roadmap’ to plant genetics

12/8/2025

“It’s the first time in tomatoes where you have such big targeting of so many genes at the same time,” says CSHL postdoc Iacopo Gentile. Read the story »

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Singing mice speak volumes

12/1/2025

A new discovery from CSHL’s Banerjee lab offers an important clue in the mystery of how mammals’ brains evolved to enable complex behaviors. Read the story »

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Shapeshifting cancers’ masters, unmasked

11/24/2025

New research from CSHL’s Vakoc lab helps explain the bizarre behavior of certain pancreatic cancers and lung cancers that can change identities. Read the story »

Her science could help you live healthier, longer

11/17/2025

Could 60 be the new 40? At Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, cellular biologist Corina Amor Vegas’ research rewinds the clock on health and disease. Read the story »

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Uplands Farm: Grounds for discovery

11/12/2025

How a 12-acre research station is inspiring innovations needed to feed and fuel the world far into the future. Read the story »

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Breast cancer case study could inform clinical trials

11/10/2025

CSHL researchers examined tissue samples from a 59-year-old woman diagnosed with stage 1 triple-negative breast cancer. Read the story »

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A doorstop for the brain’s electrical gates

10/29/2025

New findings from CSHL's Furukawa lab could have implications for treating strokes and neurodegenerative conditions like Alzheimer’s disease. Read the story »

Dicer: Life’s ancient repair tool

10/28/2025

In 2014, the Martienssen lab discovered that the Dicer protein helps protect the genome in humans and yeast. Now, they’ve figured out how. Read the story »

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Breast cancer discovery could help prevent recurrence

10/20/2025

“We’re not curing cancer, but we’re forcing it into an avenue that we’re good at, which is targeting it with hormone therapies.” Read the story »

Microscope image of a a mouse mammary gland’s ductal tree with dark branches and two blue inset boxes showing close-ups.

The magnetic math of breast health

10/2/2025

Three grad students at CSHL have developed a new tool to study changes in mouse mammary glands. It may one day allow for earlier cancer diagnoses. Read the story »

CSHL Assistant Professor Corina Amor Vegas in a lab coat smiles in a laboratory with equipment, bottles, and a computer in the background.

Amor Vegas named 2025 HHMI Freeman Hrabowski Scholar

9/29/2025

Amor Vegas was recognized for pioneering research on senescence and immune response, which may lead to new treatments for aging-related conditions. Read the story »

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Worldwide collaboration, brain-wide technology

9/18/2025

CSHL neuroscientists, current and former, contributed to two major brain-mapping studies recently published in Nature and featured on CNN. Read the story »

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You’ve never seen corn like this before

9/15/2025

CSHL Professor David Jackson says his lab’s discovery “could guide research for the next decade.” Corn growers may also want to take notice. Read the story »

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CRISPR primes goldenberry for fruit bowl fame

CRISPR primes goldenberry for fruit bowl fame

Gut health à la CAR T

AI offers ‘roadmap’ to plant genetics

Singing mice speak volumes

Shapeshifting cancers’ masters, unmasked

Her science could help you live healthier, longer

Uplands Farm: Grounds for discovery

Breast cancer case study could inform clinical trials

A doorstop for the brain’s electrical gates

Dicer: Life’s ancient repair tool

Breast cancer discovery could help prevent recurrence

The magnetic math of breast health

Amor Vegas named 2025 HHMI Freeman Hrabowski Scholar

Worldwide collaboration, brain-wide technology

You’ve never seen corn like this before

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