
How does anyone stay healthy in a world full of germs?
Feature
Computational biology is uncovering the immune system’s tricks for identifying foreign invaders. Read the story »
Feature
Computational biology is uncovering the immune system’s tricks for identifying foreign invaders. Read the story »
News
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory is endorsing the ALBA Declaration on Equity and Inclusion to promote equality in the field of neuroscience. Read the story »
Feature
In 2020 the Laboratory pivoted some of its research to COVID-19. We opened a new organoid facility and celebrated people working through the pandemic. Read the story »
News
Tobias Janowitz and Semir Beyaz won the Mark Foundation for Cancer Research’s first Endeavor Award for studying cancer as a whole body phenomenon. Read the story »
News
CSHL scientists received grants to broaden our knowledge of the human brain and how to treat neurological disorders. Read the story »
News
Roundworm embryos calibrate the speed of their development to environmental conditions. A similar system may go wrong in some cancers. Read the story »
News
A gene-regulating bit of RNA promotes breast cancer metastasis. Agents that destroy that RNA provide hope for a new drug. Read the story »
Assistant Professor Camila dos Santos describes how her lab uses organoid models to study how pregnancy permanently alters gene expression. Watch the video »
News
CSHL Assistant Professor Camila dos Santos discusses the biology of how pregnancy reduces breast cancer risk. Read the story »
News
Maryam Tsegaye won this year’s Breakthrough Junior Challenge, earning herself a scholarship and her school a brand-new CSHL-designed science lab. Read the story »
Feature
In the face of climate change, engineering genetic modifications into new crops will ensure future food supplies. Read the story »
News
Doctors frequently assess how well the kidneys work, but standard tests are not always accurate for cancer patients. Read the story »
Chandelier cells should decrease in number as animals develop. Mice with too many cells lack depth perception. Watch the video »
News
Chandelier cells should decrease in number as animals develop. If too many remain, brain systems may not work properly. Read the story »
News
A new iPhone app, paired with a handheld sequencer, can recreate a genetics laboratory anywhere in the world. Read the story »
Mitra answers audience questions about how understanding brain connections can bring medical and technological breakthroughs. Watch the video »
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Assistant Professor Tatiana Engel discusses how a model like Ptolemy’s seems to explain the world and yet is wrong. Watch the video »
News
CSHL Professor Partha Mitra presents some challenges for neuroscientists and how artificial intelligence (AI) helps overcome them. Read the story »
News
AAAS chose David Stewart, Ph.D. as a Fellow for his outstanding leadership of CSHL Meetings & Courses Program. Read the story »
News
The 15th annual Double Helix Medals raised $4.4 million during a virtual event hosted by Leslie Stahl. Read the story »
Patricia Churchland, founder of the field of neurophilosophy, discusses research on the origins of human morality and social bonding. Watch the video »
News
Scientist and philosopher Patricia Churchland discusses the evolutionary basis of morality and social bonding in humans. Read the story »
News
CSHL won the Newsday honor thanks to annual surveys filled out by employees. Read the story »
News
CSHL Assistant Professor Lucas Cheadle has been named a Next Generation Leader by the Allen Institute for Brain Science. Read the story »
News
Professor Bo Li and Assistant Director of CSHL Press Richard Sever gave talks as part of the “Life Science Across the Globe” series. Read the story »
News
Researchers found a genetic mechanism for how brand new species acquire distinct traits. Read the story »
News
CSHL Professor and HHMI Investigator Leemor Joshua-Tor was named a 2021 Fellow of the Biophysical Society for her work on RNAi and DNA replication. Read the story »
Feature
Rebecca Leshan, Ph.D. leads the Banbury Center, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory’s science think tank. Read the story »
News
Assistant Professor Arkarup Banerjee joins the neuroscience faculty, focusing on how the mind processes information and produces behaviors. Read the story »
News
CSHL WiSE wins award to continue supporting and empowering women scientists and engineers on campus and beyond. Read the story »
News
The 2,200 square foot facility will make and maintain hundreds of live tissue models grown from patient tumors. Read the story »
News
Though fear memories are made in the amygdala, a structure deep in the brain, lots of other brain structures participate. Read the story »
News
The CSHL NeuroAI program is training researchers to be fluent in neuroscience and AI to expedite the development of next-generation AI. Read the story »
News
Immunotherapy enhances the body’s own defenses to kill cancer. A new regimen may increase the utility of these types of drugs. Read the story »
Feature
These tiny balls of cells are revolutionizing the research and treatment of pancreas and other types of cancers. Read the story »
News
Sometimes, what seems like a good way to understand the world turns out to be wrong. A new machine learning tool lets scientists find better answers. Read the story »
News
medRxiv, the health sciences preprint server, announces the addition of full-text HTML to all manuscripts posted online. Read the story »
Feature
A small university in Nigeria hosts Africa’s first DNA Learning Center and plans to serve hundreds of students with hands-on genetics instruction. Read the story »
News
Professor John Moses joins the CSHL faculty, specializing in the field of click chemistry. Read the story »
News
The nineteenth annual Women’s Partnership for Science luncheon was held with social distancing to support CSHL women researchers. Read the story »
News
A picture of the brain’s rich interconnections is emerging with the help of ever more accurate computer-aided approaches. Read the story »
News
Daniel Fuerth, a postdoctoral fellow in Assistant Professor Je Lee’s lab,will study the transfer of genetic material between neurons in the brain. Read the story »
The Origin Recognition Complex (ORC) is a key piece of cellular machinery, fundamental to life, yet so far mysterious. Watch the video »
News
Researchers have their first high resolution look at how “ORC,” a human protein complex essential to life, moves. Read the story »
A 3D-model of the mouse brain (gray) showing the dorsal striatum (green), which includes the striosome. Model: Allen Brain Atlas Watch the video »
News
One brain structure is involved with both positive and negative reinforcement types of learning. Read the story »
News
Immune cells play an unexpected role in fine-tuning the brain’s neural circuits. Read the story »
News
Professor Zach Lippman and Executive Director of the Banbury Center Rebecca Leshan give talks as part of the “Life Science Across the Globe” series. Read the story »
News
Researchers found the brain circuit that connects stress-induced insomnia and the immune system in mice. Read the story »
News
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory will study the genetic contributions of ethnicity to colon, endometrial, and pancreas cancers in African Americans. Read the story »
News
A look at some of the many CSHL employees who have worked to keep the Laboratory running with new safety precautions and online offerings. Read the story »
CRISPR experts, including Professors Zach Lippman, Jennifer Doudna, and Alta Charo discuss the gene-editing technology and its use. Watch the video »
News
CRISPR experts, including Professors Zach Lippman, Jennifer Doudna, and Alta Charo discuss the gene-editing technology and its use. Read the story »
News
CSHL’s Chief Facilities Officer Steve Monez is advocating for better communication and oversight from PSEG in the aftermath of Tropical Storm Isaias. Read the story »
News
Scientists show that muscular structures first described by Leonardo da Vinci are essential for heart function. Read the story »
Feature
Using data mining techniques, doctors have discovered dozens of anti-tumor drugs hiding in plain sight. Read the story »
News
Meet the seven graduates of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory School of Biological Sciences. Congratulations to all. Read the story »
News
Neuroscientist Lucas Cheadle joins CSHL neuroscience faculty, and studies how outside stimuli affect brain development. Read the story »
News
Professor and HHMI Investigator Rob Martienssen wins a 2020 Royal Society medal for his RNAi research. Read the story »
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cancer Center Director Dave Tuveson presents an exciting new model for studying pancreatic cancer. Watch the video »
News
Researchers report on 900,000 regulatory elements in our genomes that could influence our health. Read the story »
News
Dr. David Tuveson and Dr. Tobias Janowitz discuss in Cancer Discovery how the COVID-19 pandemic has changed cancer research. Read the story »
News
CSHL researchers discovered how slow-growing pancreatic tumors can switch into a more deadly sub-type. Read the story »
News
Mikala Egeblad and David Micklos presented their work at the “Life Science Across the Globe” seminar series. Read the story »
News
Breast cancer cells sabotage nearby immune cells to evade detection and destruction by the body’s defenses. Read the story »
News
A new technique labels brain cells with short snippets of DNA to trace many neuronal connections at a time. Read the story »
News
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory ranks #1 in Innovation Impact Productivity Score among Pure Research/Health Care Institutions by the Bush Center. Read the story »
News
Report on nearly 50,000 New Yorkers tested for COVID-19 reveals demographics, hospitalization rates for positive patients. Read the story »
News
Professor Adrian Krainer is the 2020 Senior Scientist Winner of the Innovators in Science Award for his work on SPINRAZA®. Read the story »
News
Interfering with the way pancreatic cancer cells process and store cholesterol can stop a tumor from growing. Read the story »
Feature
Palm oil is an environmental scourge. Genetics has a solution. Read the story »
News
The CSHL Board of Trustees voted to restore the original name of the graduate program to the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory School of Biological Sciences. Read the story »
News
The CSHL Center for Humanities & History of Modern Biology wins a CARES Act Grant for its extensive oral history initiative. Read the story »
News
When stimulated by a neurotransmitter or drug, the NMDA receptor pulls open an ion gate that allows ions to flow. Read the story »
CSHL Professor Hiro Furukawa describes how the NMDA receptor opens and closes its ion channel. Watch the video »
News
CSHL will present two talks at the “Life Science Across the Globe” seminar series on July 8. Read the story »
News
The amount of NETs in COVID-19 patients’ blood vessels correlates with the severity of their disease. Read the story »
News
Nobelist and CSHL alum Sir Richard Roberts spoke about GMOs and the future of agriculture with Pamela Ronald and Rob Martienssen. Read the story »
Nobelist and CSHL alum Sir Richard Roberts spoke about GMOs and the future of agriculture with Pamela Ronald and Rob Martienssen in this video. Watch the video »
News
CZI partners with Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Yale University, and BMJ to help scientists share health and clinical research faster. Read the story »
News
Until now, chandelier cells were largely enigmatic, but new technology makes them accessible to researchers. Read the story »
News
It takes 230,000 genetic differences to make 100 different varieties of tomatoes. Read the story »
News
Author Siddhartha Mukherjee discusses the history and future of genetics in a virtual public lecture. Read the story »
Acclaimed author and oncologist Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee spoke from his home via video conference to over 400 virtual attendees at the CSHL Library. Watch the video »
News
Researchers from CSHL and Northwell Health are developing a way to test promising COVID-19 drugs, like famotidine, by tracking outpatient symptoms. Read the story »
News
CSHL President and CEO Bruce Stillman wins the Heineken Prize for his work on eukaryotic DNA replication. Read the story »
Feature
The CSHL DNA Learning Center is leading the education field in building virtual, interactive science experiences. Read the story »
Feature
The Lab leads the way in moving from on-site meetings and courses to virtual modes of scientific exchange. Read the story »
News
CSHL researchers discovered that pregnancy reprograms breast cells, reducing the risk of breast cancer in women under 25. Read the story »
News
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 »
News
Researchers and educators participated in an online annotation jamboree to help researchers understand the corn genome. Read the story »
News
CSHL researchers discovered factors that allow a pancreatic cell to lose its identity and turn into an aggressive cancer cell. Read the story »
News
An increase in lung ACE2 may explain why smokers are particularly vulnerable to COVID-19. Read the story »
News
Purified coronavirus proteins are in short supply for COVID-19 researchers, so CSHL plant scientists are jumping in to make them. Read the story »
News
CSHL Cancer Center Director David Tuveson and Professor Michael Wigler were chosen as 2020 Fellows of the AACR Academy. Read the story »
News
The fly brain uses a simple computing trick to ignore prevalent odors and focus on newer but rarer odorants. Read the story »
News
We asked the children of three scientists to describe their mother’s work. See what they had to say. Read the story »
News
To understand autism, CSHL Professor Michael Wigler thinks about how biological systems adapt over generations. Read the story »
Feature
CSHL Professor Michael Wigler drafted a poem explaining what we know and what we need to learn about autism. Read the story »
News
Professor Adrian Krainer was elected to the National Academy of Science as part of its 2020 election. Read the story »
Blog
He is now a leader at the DNA Learning Center, the place that taught him to love biology in high school. Read the story »
Are NETs present in human ARDS, like during fulminant coronavirus infections? Could breaking up NETs help cure patients? Watch the video »
News
CSHL Cancer Center Director David Tuveson has been elected President-Elect of the American Association for Cancer Research. Read the story »
News
A Banbury Center meeting of 35 experts proposes a new field to study the relationship between cancer and neuroscience. Read the story »
News
The symptoms of severe COVID-19 disease may be caused by overactive white blood cells that produce gauzy webs of DNA laced with toxic enzymes called NETs. Read the story »
Feature
High school students at the DNA Learning Center collect, process, and sequence the DNA, contributing to the scientific record of biodiversity. Read the story »
News
CSHL quantitative biologists have designed a computational approach for predicting the evolution of a rapidly mutating virus or cancer. Read the story »
Blog
Assistant Professor David McCandlish is a quantitative biologist who walks the line between advanced mathematics and the life sciences at CSHL. Read the story »
News
Professor Zachary Lippman is the 2020 Charles Albert Shull Award winner, an honor given by the American Society for Plant Biology. Read the story »
News
The documentary will feature CSHL Professor Adrian Krainer, materials from the CSHL Library & Archives, and glimpses of the CSHL campus. Read the story »
Feature
As scientists grapple with the COVID-19 global pandemic, preprint servers bioRxiv and medRxiv let information be free—and fast. Read the story »
Feature
CSHL alumna Carol Greider won the Nobel Prize and is a champion for diversity. But her dyslexia almost derailed her career before it began. Read the story »
News
The cofounders of bioRxiv and medRxiv explain preprint servers and how they are contributing to ending the pandemic. Read the story »
News
Professor Jeff Boyd joins the CSHL faculty, studying the growth and spread of breast cancer. Read the story »
News
Preprint papers play a key role in a U.S. government-led machine learning effort to understand the COVID-19 pandemic. Read the story »
Feature
Nobel laureate Barbara McClintock spent half her life at CSHL, enjoying the freedom to explore new ideas and ignore criticism. This is her journey. Read the story »
News
Want to know more about PCR and the coronavirus test? Ask a high school student, especially one that worked with the DNA Learning Center. Or… read on. Read the story »
News
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 »
News
Professor Adrian Krainer wins the Ross Prize for his pioneering work on antisense therapy and its application to treating SMA. Read the story »
News
The Christina Renna Foundation donated $38,000 to the lab of Professor Chris Vakoc. Read the story »
News
Congressman Tom Suozzi congratulated Regeneron semi-finalists, including two Partners for the Future, at a ceremony hosted at CSHL. Read the story »
News
Extra chromosomes are typical in cancerous tumor cells, but not all extra copies promote cancer growth. Read the story »
Feature
Vertical farming could make agriculture more robust and sustainable. To unlock that potential, scientists are redesigning crops for urban life. Read the story »
Scientists are on the trail of finding out what makes people fall in love. Test your knowledge on the science of love. Take the quiz »
News
Assistant Professor Tatiana Engel is named a 2020 Sloan Fellow for her work on computational models of decision-making. Read the story »
Feature
A pervasive virus has evaded vaccine developers for decades. By getting a clear look at its protective shell, they may finally know how to defeat it. Read the story »
News
Assistant Professor Michael Lukey joins the CSHL faculty, studying metabolic reprogramming events in cancer. Read the story »
Jason Williams has been awarded the Meritorious Prize in the National Science Foundation (NSF) 2026 Idea Machine Competition. Watch the video »
News
Jason Williams of the DNA Learning Center is a Meritorious Prize winner of the NSF’s 2026 Idea Machine Competition. Read the story »
News
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 »
Researchers from CSHL and MSKCC have determined how a mutation implicated in many blood cancers reduces the proteins that make healthy blood cells. Watch the video »
News
Eleven delegates from the UN visited CSHL to learn more about the Lab’s research and education programs. Read the story »
News
Assistant Professor Jeremy Borniger joins the CSHL faculty to study the link between the brain and cancer. Read the story »
News
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 »
News
CSHL Professor and HHMI Investigator Zachary Lippman was awarded the NAS Prize for his work in the field of plant genetics. Read the story »
Researchers have created a new chemical tool for revealing how specific types of brain cell receptors function in the brain. Watch the video »
News
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 »
Feature
By tapping into life’s algorithms, scientists are finding elegant solutions to some of the hardest problems in computer science. Read the story »
News
Jason Williams, Assistant Director of External Collaborations at the DNA Learning Center, was chosen for 2020 Kavli Frontiers of Science symposium. Read the story »
News
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 »
Acute Myeloid Leukemia is addicted to vitamin B6. Now that researchers know this, they can pursue new treatment options for the deadly blood cancer. Watch the video »
News
The CSHL Cancer Center becomes the 100th member of the Association of American Cancer Institutes. Read the story »
Try these search tips: