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One Experiment: The brain’s power lines

One Experiment: The brain’s power lines

1/22/2024

Everyone is “wired” differently. CSHL Associate Professor Jessica Tollkuhn maps the genes sex hormones use to shape developing brains. Read the story »

From cancer genetics to cancer treatments

1/18/2024

One cancer gene, one cancer genome, two Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory discoveries that helped shape the face of modern cancer medicine. Read the story »

Can we crack this cancer’s immune response?

11/29/2023

CSHL research brings scientists closer to understanding how pancreatic cancer interacts with our immune system and why immunotherapy hasn’t worked. Read the story »

Smells like learning

10/31/2023

CSHL research suggests certain neurons help us tell apart different smells while others help us learn to distinguish between similar odors. Read the story »

New antibody could target breast cancers

10/30/2023

CSHL Professor Nicholas Tonks’ team has discovered a new way to target PTPRD, an enzyme that may help some breast cancers spread. Read the story »

You say genome editing, I say natural mutation

10/19/2023

CSHL scientists have discovered that evolution and genome editing in crops are less predictable than previously thought. Read the story »

image of a Artibeus jamaicensis bat in flight

Holy immunity! Bat genes key against COVID, cancer

10/16/2023

Rapid evolution has streamlined bats’ immune systems. This may explain why they’re resistant to cancer and viruses like Ebola or COVID-19. Read the story »

Reactivate, repurpose, and rewire the brain

10/4/2023

New CSHL research on Rett syndrome could also have implications for autism spectrum disorders, dementia, and Alzheimer’s disease. Read the story »

In cancer immunotherapy, more isn’t necessarily better

9/14/2023

CSHL Assistant Professor Peter Westcott may have discovered why immunotherapy often fails in certain colon cancer treatments. Read the story »

These worms have rhythm

9/5/2023

Observing gene expression in real time, CSHL scientists identified four molecules the C. elegans worm relies on to set the tempo of its development. Read the story »

Image of RMS cells transformed into muscle cells

Once rhabdomyosarcoma, now muscle

8/28/2023

“Every successful medicine has its origin story,” says CSHL’s Christopher Vakoc. “And research like this is the soil from which new drugs are born.” Read the story »

How plants pass down genetic memories

8/28/2023

Thirty years ago, CSHL’s Rob Martienssen discovered plant gene DDM1. Now, he’s identified just how the DDM1 protein helps control inheritance. Read the story »

Photo of Asad Lakhani in the Flow Cytometry Core Facility

Genome hack reignites century-old cancer debate

8/14/2023

ReDACT, a new genome-editing technique invented at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, could bring cancer research full circle. Read the story »

Metastatic breast cancer’s Trojan horse

7/26/2023

CSHL and Massachusetts General Hospital researchers uncover how metastatic breast cancer slips past the immune system’s defenses in mice. Read the story »

Cryo-electron microscopy image of a human CALHM1 channel

This eight-armed octopus-like pore perceives taste

7/14/2023

CSHL captures never-before-seen images of the human CALHM1 channel, a mysterious cellular passageway that may be connected to Alzheimer’s disease. Read the story »

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One Experiment: The brain’s power lines

One Experiment: The brain’s power lines

From cancer genetics to cancer treatments

Can we crack this cancer’s immune response?

Smells like learning

New antibody could target breast cancers

You say genome editing, I say natural mutation

Holy immunity! Bat genes key against COVID, cancer

Reactivate, repurpose, and rewire the brain

In cancer immunotherapy, more isn’t necessarily better

These worms have rhythm

Once rhabdomyosarcoma, now muscle

How plants pass down genetic memories

Genome hack reignites century-old cancer debate

Metastatic breast cancer’s Trojan horse

This eight-armed octopus-like pore perceives taste

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