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Statement by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory addressing remarks by Dr. James D. Watson in “American Masters: Decoding Watson.”…
Giving News
Stand Up For Suzanne donates funds to support the breast cancer research of Assistant Professor Camila dos Santos.…
Giving News
LI2Day Walk is offering scholarships to Long Island high school students who have had cancer or have a parent or guardian who had cancer.…
Research Feature
A look at the various labs across CSHL that utilize CRISPR in their research, and the groundbreaking discoveries they help uncover.…
Giving News
The Three Strohm Sisters Family Foundation donated $5,000 to Associate Professor Mikala Egeblad’s for her continued research.…
Research News
Researchers determine that natural selection and our evolutionary history may be the best guides for future research.…
Giving News
The Katie Oppo Research Fund gave $75,000 to Mikala Egeblad's lab for ovarian cancer research.…
Research News
CSHL Fellow Jason Sheltzer has analyzed nearly 20,000 cancer patient histories and genetic data to take the guesswork out of prognosis.…
Institutional News
Professor Adrian Krainer has been named a NAI 2018 Fellow for his work on the first FDA-approved treatment for spinal muscular atrophy.…
Institutional News
Dr. Marilyn Simons becomes the chair of the CSHL Board of Trustees, new officers are elected, and three new trustees join the board.…
Institutional News
Breakthrough Prize winner Adrian Krainer & C. Frank Bennett reunite for the first time since their award ceremony at CSHL to discuss further project.…
Giving News
Members of the Manhasset Women’s Coalition Against Breast Cancer supported research through a donation from the Ladies Night Out fundraiser.…
Institutional News
Associate Professor Molly Hammell wins award for proposed study to find transposable elements that are implicated in ALS.…
Research News
Researchers are studying how the brain reacts to sounds that it associates with fear, and how easy it is for the brain to learn and unlearn.…
Giving Institutional News
The Masthead Cove Yacht Club raised $6,500 from their annual race, which will fund cancer research.…
Research News
Associate Professor Chris Vakoc and his team find that an aggressive type of leukemia is heavily-dependent on a common protein.…
Institutional News
David Jackson and Jan A. Witkowski were both named 2018 AAAS Fellows for their work in the fields of agriculture and biology.…
Research News
Researchers may have found a link between improper protein production and the spread of pancreatic cancer.…
Giving Institutional News
Dr. Priscilla Chan, Mark Zuckerberg, and Dr. Larry Norton were honored for their contributions to basic research at the Double Helix Medals dinner.…
Institutional News
CSHL is named a 2018 Top Long Island Workplace by Newsday through the use of employee surveys.…
Research News
Researchers find that some individual mice are smarter than their fellow rodents, which can provide insights into decision-making.…
Education News
The DNA Learning Center has completed the National Grid Advanced Genetics Program (NGAGP) in the Central Islip school district.…
Research News
Researchers have found a way to turn cancer-supporting cells into cells that restrict the cancerous growth in the pancreas.…
Research News
A team of CSHL plant biologists identify gene regulators that may help plants utilize nitrogen better and prevent excess nitrogen in soil.…
Research News
You’ve heard of “big data” but what about small? Researches have crafted a modern approach that could solve a decades-old problem in statistics.…
Research News
Professor Adrian Krainer has received a Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences for his work on the first FDA-approved treatment of SMA.…
Giving News
Associate Professor Chris Vakoc and his team receive a donation to further their rhabdomyosarcoma research…
Research News
CSHL Assistant Professor Tobias Janowitz discusses his patient-centric approach to studying cancer…
Research News
Neuroscientists Florin Albeanu and Alexei Koulakov win the NIH Director’s Transformative Research Award for their project on the olfactory system…
Research News
CSHL Professor Zachary Lippman uses CRISPR to make the groundcherry more suitable for large-scale farming…
Giving News
250 attendees gathered for the seventeenth annual CSHL's Women's Partnership for Science luncheon, with featured speaker Amanda McBrien…
Institutional News
Assistant Professor Tatiana Engel earns grant to build tools that will help build better models of the brain…
Institutional News
CSHL’s Base Pairs podcast wins the Platinum PR Award for Best Podcast from PR News…
Research News
Chronic inflammation can reawaken dormant cancer cells and spur metastasis. It may be preventable…
Education News
The latest class of the Partners for the Future program visit the Lab and meet their mentors as they get to work…
Research Feature
CSHL Professor W. Richard McCombie discusses genomic privacy and sequencing technology in this episode of Base Pairs.…
Research News
Researchers find that protein keeps neural stem cells from activating too soon and hindering brain development…
Giving News
Members of Montclair Kimberley Academy's lacrosse team raised over $2,000 to support autism research at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.…
Education Blog
College student James Korossy’s journey from taking workshops at the DNA Learning Center to working at the bench in CSHL Fellow Lingbo Zhang’s lab.…
Research News
New research helps correlate genetic mutations with errors in RNA splicing that can cause serious illness…
Institutional News
Five CSHL postdocs and graduate students won first place at the fifth annual Tufts New England Case Competition (TUNECC).…
Institutional News
CSHL Professor Adrian Krainer and his team join the Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) Foundation in ringing the Nasdaq opening bell…
Education Research News
The 2018 Undergraduate Research Program class presents their projects after working for ten weeks in various labs across campus.…
Research Feature
In a series of 8 stunning images, CSHL scientists enable us to share the miracle of a brain as it self-assembles…
Research Feature
A genetic program precisely guides development of a part of the brain…
Institutional News
CSHL professor Anthony Zador wins Gill Symposium prize for his innovative work on MAPseq…
Education News
Teachers trained in DNA barcoding can mentor students as they become citizen scientists investigating what interests them most…
Giving News
The Elisabeth R. Woods Foundation donated $30,000 for lung cancer research at their donor gathering, hosted at CSHL…
Research Feature
On this episode of Base Pairs, Rob Martienssen discusses how duckweed could be the next biofuel and help combat climate change…
Research News
Researchers have made a highly detailed map of 20,000 structural variations in a cancer cell’s genome…
Institutional News
Semir Beyaz has won three awards for his research on the impact of dietary choices on the body’s immunity against cancer…
Giving News
Counselors from the North Shore Holiday House camp toured CSHL to learn about its innovative research…
Institutional News
Professor Nicholas Tonks wins Earl and Thressa Stadtman Distinguished Scientist Award from the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology…
Research News
CSHL spinoff company MapNeuro Inc., which uses tech developed in Zador lab, wins 2018 Seed Capital Prize from Alexandria LaunchLabs…
Research News
Encouraging early results in a potential new treatment for Wilson's disease…
Giving News
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory has received Charity Navigator’s highest possible 4-star rating for the 17th time.…
Research News
Researchers have discovered a new form of lung cancer.…
Institutional News
Dhananjay Huilgol, a postdoc in Professor Joshua Huang’s lab, wins one of India’s highest honors for young investigators…
Giving News
Students from The Hotchkiss School participated in their third annual “Paint the Path to Autism Research” event and raised $2,500 for autism research…
Education Blog
High school senior Jerinna Solages learns what it’s really like to do scientific research in CSHL’s Partners for the Future program…
Institutional Feature
America must continue to a place where the most talented people in the world want to live, study and work…
Research News
Dr. Stillman and Dr. Tuveson joined with the leaders of other institutions nationwide in endorsing a statement regarding the HPV vaccine…
Research News
Alexander Dobin joins the faculty as its newest assistant professor, working on the computational side of genomics research…
Institutional News
Egeblad and 10 other female scientists from around the world were presented with heirloom jewelry at the Suffrage Science awards ceremony…
Research News
Researchers have improved a key method used to map circuits in the brain…
Education News
Science-inspired artworks created at CSHL’s DNA Learning Center win in the 2018 American Society for Microbiology Agar Art Contest…
Research News
Pancreatic organoids grown from patients' tumors make precision medicine possible…
Research Blog
LabDish spoke with science writer Carl Zimmer about what he learned about heredity as he zig-zagged through CSHL while writing his new book…
Institutional News
Professor Zachary Lippman was chosen as a Finalist in Life Sciences for the 2018 Blavatnik National Awards…
Research News
Researchers have identified a circuit in the brain that drives anxiety…
Institutional News
CSHL Professor Zach Lippman is selected as an HHMI investigator, in recognition of his innovative work in the field of plant genetics…
Institutional News
Assistant Professor Camila dos Santos, Ph.D., has been awarded the Pershing Square Sohn Prize for Young Investigators in Cancer Research.…
Research Blog
Colorful flowers are a sure sign of spring. But how do flowering plants know that it is time to bloom?…
Research News
Researchers have solved a mystery about how pancreatic cancer spreads…
Research Feature
Cancer immunotherapy has a long and storied history, one that begins with a young woman suffering from a pain in her hand…
Education News
Some herbal products are not what they claim to be. These high school students and their mentor used DNA to investigate…
Institutional Feature
A message from President and CEO Dr. Bruce Stillman from the Spring 2018 Harbor Transcript on the innovative research happening at CSHL…
Research News
A structural variation enables a key brain receptor to function in a hostile environment…
Research Feature
Doug Fearon used a mouse model to discover how pancreatic cancer hides from the immune system…
Education WSBS News
Five students from the Watson School of Biological Sciences graduate, with special keynote speeches from Drs. David and Leon Botstein…
Research News
A team provides proof of concept for an RNA drug correcting an error in RNA splicing that causes familial dysautonomia (FD)…
Research Feature
A relatively small neuroscience group at CSHL is having an outsized impact on a dynamic and highly competitive field…
Education WSBS News
CSHL celebrates its 15th commencement, with five promising Ph.D. students graduating and honorary degrees presented to David and Leon Botstein…
Institutional Research News
CSHL Professor David Tuveson was elected to the Board of Directors of the American Association for Cancer Research for the 2018 - 2021 term…
Research News
Scientists have identified a new illness caused by a genetic mutation that gives rise to a wide range of symptoms including intellectual disability…
Giving News
Dr. James D. Watson celebrated his 90th birthday on April 6 with a gala piano concert and dinner, which helped raise money for an endowment…
Institutional News
CSHL's podcast Base Pairs was nominated for a prestigious Webby award for best Science and Education podcast…
Institutional News
Life science business leader Andrew Whiteley becomes the Vice President of CSHL's Business Development and Technology Transfer department.…
Research News
In lethal prostate cancer, the gene PTEN is often missing. In such cases, one effective treatment may be to administer drugs that inhibit mitochondria…
Research Feature
Straddling CSHL and Northwell Health gives Dr. Maki the perspective he needs to bring cancer research closer to the practice of treating patients…
Education Feature
At least 10 CSHL Courses alumni have gone on to win a Nobel Prize, while others have become leaders of major scientific institutions…
Research News
Researchers used MAPseq, a revolutionary brain mapping method, to make a discovery that will force neuroscientists to rethink how areas of the cortex …
Research News
CSHL Fellow Lingbo Zhang received a Young Investigator Award from the Edward P. Evans Foundation…
Research Feature
Zachary Lippman’s team found a way to boost tomato yield by digging into the plant’s genome and fine-tuning its branching patterns.…
Research News
Scientists have identified a receptor on plant stem cells that can issue different instructions about how the plant will grow.…
Education WSBS News
Dr. Hopi Hoekstra, Prof. of Zoology, Harvard University, spoke at the 21st Gavin G. Borden lecture about how the African striped mouse got is stripes…
Research Feature
We look at the "reproducibility crisis" in science, with a cancer researcher discovering something he didn't expect while experimenting with MELK…
Institutional News
Bruce Ratner and Stuart Weisbrod were elected to the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Board of Trustees…
Research News
CRISPR was used to find 2 new druggable targets in a deadly leukemia…
Education Blog
An 11-year-old student uses DNA testing to try to solve a 5,000-year-old murder mystery at CSHL’s DNA Learning Center…
Research News
Researchers have developed a method for identifying splicing-based biomarkers for liver cancer…
Research News
CSHL Fellow Semir Beyaz works on the effects of what we eat and how it affect the incidence of colorectal cancers.…
Research Feature
Douglas Fearon's team is figuring out how to get immune cells to recognize—and kill—pancreatic cancer cells…
Research News
A simple genetic modification can triple grain production in sorghum, a drought-tolerant plant that is an important source of food and animal feed.…
Research News
CSHL Fellow Jason Sheltzer and his research team use CRISPR to discover that MELK is not actually involved in cancer.…
Research News
New research on the genetic causes of autism calls attention to diminished motor skills and suggests the importance of broad cognitive impairment…
Institutional News
The Public Library of Science (PLOS) will now be automatically posting papers submitted to its journal on bioRxiv, CSHL's preprint server…
Institutional Blog
Jackie Novatt was determined to show the people on her campus tours how science really works—and landed her dream job in the process.…
Institutional News
Professor Leemor Joshua-Tor receives the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology’s 2018 Mildred Cohn Award in Biological Chemistry.…
Research News
Rice provides 20% of calories consumed. As the population grows toward 9 billion and the climate shifts, we'll need to grow more rice in more places.…
Education News
Congressman Suozzi hosts congratulatory event at CSHL for high school science competition winners, including two Partners for the Future participants…
Research News
What makes us different from our primate relatives? Gene regulation is one important evolutionary factor…
Research News
CSHL scientists have designed software that enables biologists to determine with unprecedented accuracy how much protein a given cell is making…
Education Blog
David Haas was stunned to learn the impact of work he abandoned decades ago. He took a CSHL course to see it for himself.…
Giving Institutional News
The Christina Renna Foundation donates over $30,000 for rhabdomyosarcoma research, and honors Associate Professor Chris Vakoc with its research award…
Institutional News
Plant geneticist Rob Martienssen awarded prestigious McClintock Prize…
Research News
Geneticists have solved a century-old mystery by discovering a remarkable mechanism that enables plants to count their chromosomes…
Research Blog
How Professor Doug Fearon’s experiences with autoimmune disease patients contributed to the discovery of a new potential immunotherapy for cancer…
Education News
Student wins back-to-back prizes from Silicon Valley. One such prize, a lab designed by CSHL’s DNA Learning Center, was awarded to her high school.…
Giving News
On December 18, a representative of the Three Strohm Sisters Family Foundation gave $5,000 for lung cancer recurrence research in Mikala Egeblad's lab…
Research News
By throwing a molecular wrench into the gears of a machine that sets genes into motion, researchers were able to get leukemias to 'melt away.'…
Institutional News
Immunotherapy as a cancer treatment may be cutting-edge, but it has a history. It’s the result of years of work by many dedicated researchers, some…
Research News
CSHL Professor Bo Li and two collaborators at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) have been awarded a new grant under the BRAIN Initiative…
Giving News
CSH Seahawks Varsity football team present Professor Michael Ronemus with a check for $5,000 toward autism research…
Research Feature
In this episode of Base Pairs, we discuss how genetic information is changing how we define important categories.…
Institutional News
David L. Spector was named a fellow of The American Society for Cell Biology…
Institutional News
Associate Professor Anne Churchland was honored with The Louise Hanson Marshall Special Recognition Award…
Banbury Research News
Experts find that current protocols for Lyme disease lacks the accuracy and sensitivity that next-generation testing can provide.…
Education Blog
The gender imbalance in slates of invited speakers for scientific conferences is an issue that CSHL's Women in Science and Engineering (WiSE) group…
Research News
The news about prostate cancer can be confusing. It’s the third most common cancer type among Americans…
Research Feature
A CSHL faculty member since 1995, a professor since 2005, Joshua-Tor is among the most distinguished members of the Laboratory community.…
Research Feature
Knowing that cancers become lethal when they spread, investigators at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory seek a way of detecting tumors much earlier …
Research Feature
Associate Professor Pavel Osten and colleagues discovered using their qBrain method is discerned by probing hidden relations among the dots.…
Institutional News
New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo visited Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory to break ground on the new $75 million Center for Therapeutics Research.…
Research News
We’re the hosts of Base Pairs, a podcast from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory that tells stories about the power of genetic information—past, present an…
Giving Institutional News
The 12th annual Women’s Partnership for Science luncheon celebrated honorary director of the CSHL Association Freddie Staller.…
Giving Institutional Feature
The 2017 Double Helix Medals were presented to Tom Brokaw and Helen Ann and Charles Dolan.…
Education WSBS News
Monn Monn Myat, Ph.D., is the new Associate Dean of the Watson School of Biological Sciences.…
Research News
For neuroscientists, the brain presents an almost endless number of mysteries to be solved.…
Research News
Four decades ago, scientists made a discovery that “completely transformed all of biology,” according to Nobelist James Watson. …
Research News
Assistant Professor Ullas Pedmale has received the National Institutes of Health "Outstanding Investigator Award."…
Education WSBS News
Dr. Greg Hannon has been named the new director of the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, effective February 1, 2018.…
Giving Institutional News
More than $4.5 million was raised last night at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory’s (CSHL) 12th Double Helix Medals dinner (DHMD).…
Research Feature
David Micklos of the DNA Learning Center, and Miriam Rich, a research scholar, talk about the big issues of eugenics.…
Giving Institutional WSBS News
The Friends of T.J. Foundation presented CSHL Associate Professor Chris Vakoc with a check for $50,000 for his ongoing rhabdomysarcoma research…
Research News
Neuroscientists have clarified the mechanism used by newly born neurons in mice to migrate to very specific areas.…
Research Blog
Tracking a person entails searching through their email, phone, and other means of communication to map out their network. To do this for a brain cell…
Research News
The BRAIN Initiative Cell Census Network establishes a Center and a Collaboratory for the Mouse Brain Cell Atlas at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory …
Research News
Special cryo-EM imaging helps figure out how the double helix of DNA separates when it replicates…
Research News
A team at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory led by Professor Bo Li found evidence indicating the central amygdala is key to to aversive learning.…
Research Feature
Associate Professor Mikala Egeblad discovers that neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs) help cancer by creating holes in the tissue.…
Giving News
Members of the Masthead Cove Yacht Club (MCYC) raised $6,700 from their annual Masthead Race on August 13.…
Research Feature
On this episode, Base Pairs looks into the eugenics movement, including the record kept in CSHL.…
Institutional News
NY Governor Andrew M. Cuomo visited Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) this morning to break ground on the new $75 million Center for Therapeutics.…
Research News
A multiyear project in the Brain Initiative, qBrain is already revealing the brain as never before.…
Research Feature
Associate Professor Anne Churchland, co-founder the IBL along with Professor Tony Zador, explains how it could help solve a problem in neuroscience.…
Giving Institutional News
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory held the 16th annual Women's Partnership for Science luncheon, a summer staple among New York's female philanthropists.…
Research News
Neurons are defined by determining which cells they connect with and how they communicate across synapses …
Research Feature
Further discussion with Associate Professor Gurinder "Mickey" Atwal about the need for more math and physics in biology.…
Research News
Mutating regulatory regions varies yield traits the way a dimmer switch controls a light bulb…
Research Blog
After interviewing for a position in a pancreatic cancer lab at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 7,000 miles from his hometown in South Korea, Chang-il…
Research News
Inhibitory chandelier cells receive and transmit information from different ensembles of excitatory cells in their cortical neighborhood …
Institutional News
CSHL Women in Science and Engineering and the Postdoctoral Liaison Committee co-hosted the 2nd annual Greater NYC WiSE Summer Beach Party…
Education Blog
Hands-on experience using CRISPR and access to top scientists from around the world who are pioneering its use made this a memorable summer for…
Research Feature
Associate Professor Gurinder "Mickey" Atwal talks about the essential mystery at the center of quantitative biology.…
Research News
Leemor Joshua-Tor publishes atomic-resolution pictures and an analysis of RNAi machinery…
Institutional News
Dr. Adam Kepecs receives grant to develop conceptual infrastructure for behavioral neuroscience research…
Research News
An epigenetic factor reprograms gene enhancers, enabling cancer cells to “remember” an earlier developmental state and causing metastasis. …
Research News
CSHL researchers discover when ERα receptors are deleted in the brains of male mice, they do not exhibit typical "masculine" behaviors during puberty.…
History Institutional Blog
3D images are a throwback to the past as CSHL and Centerbrook Architects rediscover a 1950s building that has been occupied by some of the Laboratory…
Research News
New library of RNA sequences that can be used by researchers to direct the CRISPR-cas9 complex to cut DNA with unprecedented precision.…
Research Feature
This episode of Base Pairs talks to Associate Professor Zachary Lippman about all the weird mutations that naturally occur in plants.…
History Institutional Blog
Miriam Rich, the recipient of CSHL’s 2017-18 Sydney Brenner Research Scholarship, is determined to show how the concept of “good genes” became…
Research News
TUTase enzymes interact with let-7, a regulator of development; targeting them could help control certain cancers.…
Research News
Fragments snipped from tRNAs protect embryonic stem cells while they’re being epigenetically reprogrammed.…
Giving News
Over 180 golfers took to the greens at Piping Rock Club at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory’s 24th annual golf tournament.…
Institutional News
J.C. Flowers Foundation grant gives practitioners in malaria-endemic areas access to a critical resource…
Research News
Researchers find children with autism are genetically more like other autistic children than their unaffected siblings.…
Research Feature
This episode of Base Pairs looks at the issues climate change may bring to agriculture and how CRISPR can help overcome them.…
Education Blog
Sometimes viruses cause harmful infections, but students in the DNA Learning Center’s Urban Barcode Research Program identified a new virus that could…
Education Institutional News
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) welcomed 500+ new friends on June 10, 2017 to share the thrill of scientific discovery.…
Research News
A new, much more detailed reference genome for maize, or corn, as it is called in the U.S., provides new insight into the crop.…
Education Blog
Math isn’t exactly known as “everyone’s favorite subject,” yet Associate Professor Mickey Atwal has won the Watson School of Biological Science’s…
Research News
Cancer cells, like stem cells, have the ability to multiply indefinitely but epigenetic factor BPTF may be a shared weakness.…
Giving News
On Saturday, April 22, 2017, 245 people attended the 4th annual Hanging with Heroes fundraiser held at Driftwood Camp in Melville. …
Research News
Understanding gene interactions can enable breeders to break existing productivity barriers in agriculture.…
Research Blog
Confidence is “not just a feeling,” according to neuroscientist Adam Kepecs. Finding the confidence-calculating circuitry in our brains has huge…
Research Feature
Drs. Molly Hammell and Thomas Gingeras talk about redefining what a biologist is and what genes are.…
Research News
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) has been awarded a research subcontract by Leidos Biomedical Research to lead a Cancer Model Development Center (CMDC) for pancreatic, breast, colorectal, lung, liver and other upper-gastrointestinal cancers.…
Education WSBS News
Eight new Ph.D.s join 90 alumni who have earned a degree from the Watson School of Biological Sciences in the 18 years since its accreditation.…
Research News
Researchers have found important new clues to the development of pancreatic cancer.…
Research News
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) Associate Professor Mikala Egeblad, Ph.D., has been awarded the Pershing Square Sohn Prize.…
Research News
Professor Leemor Joshua-Tor has been elected to The National Academy of Sciences (NAS).…
Education Blog
For Alexa DeAngelis, who was recently awarded a Fulbright scholarship, combining a desire to help people with a passion for biochemistry means design…
Institutional Research News
To accelerate the pace of scientific discovery, the bioRxiv preprint service will advance free distribution of research manuscript drafts.…
Education Blog
Effective advocacy for science is the culmination of many small steps…
Research Feature
This episode of Base Pairs deals with the myth of "junk DNA" and why scientists are interested in non-coding portions of the genome.…
Research News
Professor Leemor Joshua-Tor is among 228 newly elected members of The American Academy of Arts and Sciences…
Research News
Dr. Sordella and her team propose a novel theory of how some cancers circumvent the killing power of targeted therapies.…
Research News
New research demonstrates that some transposons are no longer effectively inhibited, resulting in a storm of jumping genes, leading to DNA damage.…
Research Blog
By revealing evidence that contradicts the rationale for a new cancer drug, a pair of student scientists learns firsthand that when you do science…
Institutional News
Dr. Joanne Berger-Sweeney, president of Trinity College, was elected to the CSHL Board of Trustees.…
Research News
Human ORC complex captured in action in x-ray crystallography and cryo-EM…
Research Feature
This episode of Base Pairs digs into "dark matter" a type of genetic information that could help scientists better understand diseases like…
Research Blog
Memories may seem intangible, but many scientists are working to figure out how they are physically stored in the brain. To achieve this, we’ll need …
Research News
Researchers describe how dopamine-releasing neurons weigh the ambiguity of sensory information, indicating that neurons are highly sophisticated.…
Research Blog
An unusual, but beautiful sight can be found among the figures of a recent scientific paper about some of the tiny machines in our brain: watercolor…
Giving Institutional News
The New York Chapter of The Children’s Heart Foundation (CHF) presented Dr. Michael Ronemus of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) a $50,000 grant.…
Giving News
Marilyn Abrams and Lorri Prince of Glen Cove CARES presented a $7,000 check to Dr. Mikala Egeblad, Professor at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory to support her breast cancer research…
Research News
Researchers finds that stroma,“wound”-like tissue that surrounds the tumors, helps explain why pancreatic cancer is so resistant to treatment.…
Research News
Researchers at CSHL have discovered that a protein called Importin-11 protects the anti-cancer protein PTEN from destruction by transporting it.…
Institutional News
CSHL statement regarding Executive Order on border security and immigration…
Research Feature
A special bonus episode of Base Pairs offering an explanation of why the name "Base Pairs" was chosen…
Research News
Researchers found that the failure of the Mecp2 gene, which leads to Rett syndrome, has biological consequences later in life.…
Institutional News
Northwell Health and Indivumed collaborate to greatly expand cancer biobanking activities within Northwell Health to develop medical approaches.…
Research News
Pre-malignant aneuploid cells grew more slowly and formed smaller tumors than comparable cells with normal chromosome number, CSHL researchers found.…
Institutional News
Dr. Stillman and Dr. Tuveson joined with the leaders of other institutions nationwide in endorsing a statement regarding the HPV vaccine.…
Research News
The fly sheds light on how the brain acts to signal “fullness” and the possibility of conferring resilience against the impact of high-fat diets…
Giving News
Austin’s Purpose presented CSHL Hiro Furukawa with a donation to continue NMDA research.…
Giving News
Over the last two years, CSHL has applied its excellence in basic research and innovative technology development to understanding the rare but intractable sarcoma cancers. …
Research News
Nusinersen (Spinraza) will be used to treat young children with a severe and potentially fatal illness called spinal muscular atrophy (SMA).…
Giving Institutional News
Join Glen Cove CARES for their 20th Anniversary celebration.…
Giving News
The Manhasset Women's Coalition Against Breast Cancer presented a check to support Dr. Camila dos Santos' breast cancer research.…
Research Feature
This episode of BasePairs looks at the problems of neuropsychiatric drug discovery, and the method by which they may soon be resolved.…
Giving News
Eli Gordon, kicker for the Cold Spring Harbor football team, presented a check today for $1,000.00 for breast cancer research.…
Research News
Dr. Robert G. Maki an internationally-renowned sarcoma cancer physician and researcher, joins the leadership of the Northwell Health Cancer Institute.…
Institutional Blog
An interview with actor and science communication advocate Alan Alda about his work at the Alda Center for Communicating Science.…
Research News
Truncated p53 proteins, presumed unimportant, now point to new drug targets for some of "the hardest cancers"…
Giving News
When you give to Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, you are making an investment in the careers of young scientists.…
Research News
Researchers use CRISPR to expand the geographical range of important food crops.…
Giving Institutional News
More than $4.3 million was raised last night at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory’s 11th Double Helix Medals dinner, honoring Alan Alda and P. Roy Vagelos…
Research Feature
Professor Adrian Krainer develops a treatment for spinal muscular atrophy, the leading genetic cause of infant death.…
Research News
Drugs precisely targeting portions of the NMDA receptor may have applications in Alzheimer’s, depression and schizophrenia.…
Institutional News
Dr. David Tuveson, M.D., Ph.D., succeeds Dr. Bruce Stillman as Director of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) Cancer Center.…
Research Feature
For Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month, Base Pairs looks at the science of antioxidants and cancer.…
Research Blog
Members of Trotman don fake moustaches in order to raise money for prostate cancer research during Movember. …
Research News
RNAi and other epigenetic processes induce changes in where and when specific genes are expressed without altering their genetic code.…
Research News
Research reveals a mechanism that causes wasting in cancer and tests a way to reverse it.…
Research News
Researchers use RNA sequencing to identify a network of genes that work together to determine the duration of a critical window for growth.…
Giving News
Claire Friedlander Family Foundation donated $200,000 for new equipment at the Woodbury Genome Center.…
Banbury Research Blog
Lyme disease researcher Steven Schutzer talks about the important meetings held in the Banbury Center.…
Research Blog
Associate Professor Mickey Atwal explains how exploring numbers and patterns could lead to a new cancer treatment strategy.…
Research News
Neutrophils, the most common type of white blood cell, can be taken over by cancer cells and used as an aid in metastasis.…
Giving Institutional News
Members of the Masthead Cove Yacht Club (MCYC) raised $7,007 from their annual Masthead Race on August 14, 2016.…
Research Feature
This episode of Base Pairs follows Professor Adrian Krainer and his experience as the first CSHL fellow.…
Research Blog
David Tuveson discusses the relationship between antioxidants and cancer, and how the former doesn't necessarily prevent the latter.…
Research News
CSHL scientists test an antisense method of targeting long noncoding RNAs overexpressed in breast cancers.…
Research Blog
Kayla Funk, a childhood cancer survivor, on her experiences with pediatric cancer and the push for more funding for research.…
Research News
Researchers have uncovered a neural circuit that processes evaluations and have succeeded in identifying its sources.…
Research News
Researchers at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory created a set of tools that combine genetic markers and virus particles to target GABA cell types.…
Institutional News
15th Annual Women's Partnership raises over $200,000 for disease research at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory…
Giving News
LI2Day donated $2,000 to CSHL, having donated nearly $300,000 to support breast cancer research at the CSHL since 2004.…
Giving News
Regina Caliendo and Doris Jelinek presented a $10,000 check to Dr. Sarah Diermeier for breast cancer research.…
Research Blog
Associate Professor Christopher Vakoc on why calling pediatric cancers "rare" actually hurts their chances of being studied.…
Research Feature
This episode of Base Pairs looks at the rising population, plant biology, and the future of food.…
Research Blog
Nobel laureate Richard Roberts discusses the importance of RNA splicing and how scientists can learn from "failed" experiments.…
Institutional News
Increased support will fuel continued growth and technical development of the increasingly prominent biomedical preprint service.…
Education Blog
We live in exciting times. Until recently, the microscope was the only way for scientists to take a closer look at microorganisms. …
Research News
MAPseq can trace the long-range projections of large numbers of individual neurons from a specific region to wherever they lead in the brain.…
Education Research Feature
This episode on Base Pairs explores how genetic information to better understand human history.…
Research News
Biotechnology firms Biogen and Ionis Pharmaceuticals cut short a phase-3 clinical trial for the investigational drug nusinersen as it met endpoint.…
Research Blog
Graduate student Lisa Krug discusses her research and personal connection to ALS, and Ride for Life, a not-for-profit organization for ALS research.…
Research News
Researchers demonstrate that in the specific context of pancreatic cells leading to cancer, raisin antioxidant levels should not be raised.…
Research News
Team explains a key mechanism to prevent aberrant cell proliferation…
Education Blog
With DNA barcoding, high school seniors Sydney Lyncook and Tanjil Uddin realized that they had the power to show whether the manufacturers of …
Research Feature
This episode of Base Pairs covers the contentious genetics and history of America’s corn production.…
Research News
A team of researchers at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory discovers new insights into signaling events that underlie metastasis in ovarian cancer cells.…
Research News
Researchers identify a new drug target in leukemia and creation of a candidate drug that hits the target.…
Research Feature
Professor Greg Hannon and his team, including Assistant Professor Camila dos Santos, learn more about breast cells and tissue.…
Research News
CSHL partners with Research!America to find out where political candidates stand on support for basic research.…
Institutional News
Assistant Professor Camila dos Santos of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) has been selected as one of seven 2016 Rita Allen Foundation Scholars. …
Research News
The genome of the corn plant “is a lot more exciting” than scientists have previously believed.…
Research Feature
In the pilot episode of Base Pairs, two stories of DNA research that show how far the field has come…
Institutional News
Daniel Rodríguez-Leal, Ph.D., a postdoctoral investigator was selected for the Pew Latin American Fellows in the Biomedical Sciences…
Education Blog
Key takeaways from the lecture “Bench to Bioscience Enterprise” which talks about the connections between business and science.…
Giving News
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory has received Charity Navigator’s highest possible 4-star rating for the 15th time…
Giving News
The WTFC Foundation held its 10th Annual "The Breast of Everything" fundraiser, raising over $40,000 to support breast cancer research…
Education Blog
Do-it-yourself (“DIY”) science evokes images of amateur scientists tinkering with test tubes in garages on the weekends. So, at first, the picture of …
Institutional News
Associate Professor Christopher Vakoc of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory is among seven winners of the third annual Pershing Square Sohn Prize…
Giving Institutional News
CSHL gathered to welcome Chris Pendergast and his ALS Ride for Life team to campus on Monday, May 16.…
Research News
Researchers discover a new regulatory pathway that channels signals emanating from a plant's extremities to the stem cell niche.…
Research News
The brain produces feelings of confidence that inform decisions the same way statistics pulls patterns out of noisy data.…
Education WSBS News
Josh Sanders developed a series of tools for neuroscience research that filled major needs in the field.…
Education WSBS News
On May 1, proud friends and family mingled with distinguished scientists at the 13th commencement ceremony of the Watson School of Biological Sciences…
Education WSBS News
Mickey Atwal is the third two-time winner of the Winship Herr Award for Excellence and Creativity in Teaching.…
Research News
Structural biologists obtained snapshots of the activation of an important type of brain-cell receptor.…
WSBS News
Watson School awards seven Ph.D. degrees, to students who studied topics ranging from single-cell sequence data analysis to acute myeloid leukemia.…
Research Blog
Ivan Iossifov talks about some of the reasons why autism disproportionately effects boys on a genetic level.…
Institutional News
CSHL announced the Center for Therapeutics Research project, applying biomedical expertise towards advancing therapeutics for genetic diseases.…
Research Blog
A discussion with Ivan Iossifov with what exactly the term "risk genes" means and what they do.…
Institutional News
Adrian Krainer was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.…
Institutional News
Andrew Whiteley joined the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Office of Technology Transfer as the first Executive in Residence.…
Research Blog
A look at the research which points to the different genes potentially at the root of autism.…
Research News
Associate Professor Bo Li and Assistant Professor Je Lee, are among 25 teams that have won Human Frontier Science Program Research Program Grants…
Research Blog
Associate Professor Ivan Iossifov discusses how parents who are not autistic can pass autism onto their children through their genes.…
Institutional News
U.S. Patent & Trademark Office has denied all 4 petitions filed by Benitec Biopharma Ltd seeking to invalidate CSHL's patents directed to shRNA.…
Research Blog
Neuroscientist Matt Kaufman uses brief, ultrafast laser pulses to understand how the brain makes sensory-guided decisions.…
Research Blog
Neuroscientists talk about the importance of the intersections between theory and experiment, and how it has shaped their work.…
Giving News
The Joni Gladowsky Foundation holds its annual Winter Classic Hockey Tournament.…
WSBS News
Lisa Krug defended her Ph.D. thesis, in which she studied the molecular basis of ALS in a model organism: the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster.…
Research News
Using several different methods of DNA analysis, an international research team has found what they consider to be strong evidence of interbreeding.…
Research News
Reseachers discovered the purpose of a tool present in both mosses and flowering plants, organisms whose common ancestor dates back 450 million years.…
Research Blog
A story on Mikala Egeblad's breast cancer research and the importance of the tumor microenvironment.…
Giving News
Stand Up for Suzanne, a Long Island-based group founded to support cutting edge research at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory held their annual luncheon…
Research News
The Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering announced a cross-institutional consortium to map the brain's neural circuits.…
Giving Institutional News
The Christina Renna Foundation presented $35,000 to Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) at its 9th annual Angel's Wish Gala.…
Institutional News
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory joined 68 other top cancer centers in issuing a statement urging increased HPV vaccination for the prevention of cancer…
Education Blog
An interview with Partners for the Future participant Tamanna Bhatia and her work in Alea Mill's lab studying cancer cells.…
Institutional News
The enhanced NSF project will now provide data management and computation across scientific disciplines…
Research News
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory announced that authors of manuscripts posted on its preprint server can now submit papers directly to leading journals.…
Research Blog
A discussion of female rats as research subjects and how their hormonal cycle comes into play.…
History Institutional Blog
In celebration of scientist Milislav Demerec, a look at how he discovered a strain of Penicillium that more effectively produced pencillin.…