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The nervous system’s matchmaker

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The nervous system’s matchmaker

9/2/2024

CSHL’s Saket Navlakha has devised a new computer algorithm that could have many popular real-world applications. His inspiration: the nervous system. Read the story »

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How breast cancer goes hungry

8/28/2024

CSHL Assistant Professor Michael Lukey has identified a source of breast cancer’s backup food supplies—and a way to block access. Read the story »

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Old chemo drug, new pancreatic cancer therapy?

8/26/2024

CSHL scientists have found that folinic acid makes immunotherapy therapy more effective against pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma in mice. Read the story »

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One Experiment: The devil in the greenhouse

8/15/2024

CSHL’s meanest plant may help the Lippman lab tame prickly indigenous crops like Australia’s desert raisin. Read the story »

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Corn’s ‘missing link’

8/7/2024

CSHL researchers have discovered a biological mechanism that may explain how corn spread so rapidly across the Americas 4,000 years ago. Read the story »

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Every rose has its thorns … or does it?

8/1/2024

CSHL biologists have found a way to remove prickles from plants genetically. Their discovery could change the way we think about evolution in general. Read the story »

This protein does “The Twist”

7/31/2024

CSHL Professor Hiro Furukawa has figured out how the NMDAR performs a key step in the brain’s cognitive dance. Read the story »

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A century of women’s health breakthroughs

7/22/2024

Oscar Riddle identified the hormone behind lactation in 1933. The discovery at CSHL continues to inspire research on women’s health and breast cancer. Read the story »

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One Experiment: Brain-body’s feathery display

7/15/2024

An angry peacock is no joke. Like the colorful bird and its tall tail feathers, cancer biology can make for some eye-catching images. Read the story »

How to stop cancer cachexia? Start at the top

7/8/2024

Professor Bo Li and a team of collaborators from four CSHL labs have discovered a new potential drug target for the lethal wasting disease. Read the story »

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Finding the sweet spot in brain development

7/1/2024

Short-lived neural connections in the mouse brain can have long-lasting effects on how the animal senses and interacts with the world. Read the story »

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SQUID pries open AI black box

6/21/2024

CSHL’s Koo and Kinney labs have built a tool to suss out how AI analyzes the genome. What sets it apart? Decades of quantitative genetics knowledge. Read the story »

Can AI learn like us?

6/20/2024

CSHL NeuroAI Scholar Kyle Daruwalla has created an AI neural network that can retain and recall knowledge much like we do. Read the story »

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Pancreatic cancer’s cellular amnesia

6/17/2024

New study from CSHL Professor Christopher Vakoc and former postdoc Diogo Maia-Silva shows how basal-like cancer cells lose their original identity. Read the story »

RNA splicing’s spotters

6/10/2024

RNA therapeutics pioneer CSHL Professor Adrian Krainer has discovered a link between two important regulator proteins, SRSF1 and DDX23. Read the story »

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The nervous system’s matchmaker

The nervous system’s matchmaker

How breast cancer goes hungry

Old chemo drug, new pancreatic cancer therapy?

One Experiment: The devil in the greenhouse

Corn’s ‘missing link’

Every rose has its thorns … or does it?

This protein does “The Twist”

A century of women’s health breakthroughs

One Experiment: Brain-body’s feathery display

How to stop cancer cachexia? Start at the top

Finding the sweet spot in brain development

SQUID pries open AI black box

Can AI learn like us?

Pancreatic cancer’s cellular amnesia

RNA splicing’s spotters

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