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Students from The Hotchkiss School participated in their third annual “Paint the Path to Autism Research” event and raised $2,500 for autism research...
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High school senior Jerinna Solages learns what it’s really like to do scientific research in CSHL’s Partners for the Future program...
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America must continue to a place where the most talented people in the world want to live, study and work...
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Dr. Stillman and Dr. Tuveson joined with the leaders of other institutions nationwide in endorsing a statement regarding the HPV vaccine...
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Alexander Dobin joins the faculty as its newest assistant professor, working on the computational side of genomics research...
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Egeblad and 10 other female scientists from around the world were presented with heirloom jewelry at the Suffrage Science awards ceremony...
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Researchers have improved a key method used to map circuits in the brain...
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Science-inspired artworks created at CSHL’s DNA Learning Center win in the 2018 American Society for Microbiology Agar Art Contest...
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Pancreatic organoids grown from patients' tumors make precision medicine possible...
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LabDish spoke with science writer Carl Zimmer about what he learned about heredity as he zig-zagged through CSHL while writing his new book...
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Professor Zachary Lippman was chosen as a Finalist in Life Sciences for the 2018 Blavatnik National Awards...
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Researchers have identified a circuit in the brain that drives anxiety...
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CSHL Professor Zach Lippman is selected as an HHMI investigator, in recognition of his innovative work in the field of plant genetics...
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Assistant Professor Camila dos Santos, Ph.D., has been awarded the Pershing Square Sohn Prize for Young Investigators in Cancer Research....
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Colorful flowers are a sure sign of spring. But how do flowering plants know that it is time to bloom?...
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Researchers have solved a mystery about how pancreatic cancer spreads...
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Cancer immunotherapy has a long and storied history, one that begins with a young woman suffering from a pain in her hand...
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Some herbal products are not what they claim to be. These high school students and their mentor used DNA to investigate...
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A message from President and CEO Dr. Bruce Stillman from the Spring 2018 Harbor Transcript on the innovative research happening at CSHL...
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A structural variation enables a key brain receptor to function in a hostile environment...
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Doug Fearon used a mouse model to discover how pancreatic cancer hides from the immune system...
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Five students from the Watson School of Biological Sciences graduate, with special keynote speeches from Drs. David and Leon Botstein...
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A team provides proof of concept for an RNA drug correcting an error in RNA splicing that causes familial dysautonomia (FD)...
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A relatively small neuroscience group at CSHL is having an outsized impact on a dynamic and highly competitive field...
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CSHL celebrates its 15th commencement, with five promising Ph.D. students graduating and honorary degrees presented to David and Leon Botstein...
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CSHL Professor David Tuveson was elected to the Board of Directors of the American Association for Cancer Research for the 2018 - 2021 term...
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Scientists have identified a new illness caused by a genetic mutation that gives rise to a wide range of symptoms including intellectual disability...
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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...
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CSHL's podcast Base Pairs was nominated for a prestigious Webby award for best Science and Education podcast...
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Life science business leader Andrew Whiteley becomes the Vice President of CSHL's Business Development and Technology Transfer department....
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In lethal prostate cancer, the gene PTEN is often missing. In such cases, one effective treatment may be to administer drugs that inhibit mitochondria...
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Straddling CSHL and Northwell Health gives Dr. Maki the perspective he needs to bring cancer research closer to the practice of treating patients...
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At least 10 CSHL Courses alumni have gone on to win a Nobel Prize, while others have become leaders of major scientific institutions...
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Researchers used MAPseq, a revolutionary brain mapping method, to make a discovery that will force neuroscientists to rethink how areas of the cortex ...
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CSHL Fellow Lingbo Zhang received a Young Investigator Award from the Edward P. Evans Foundation...
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Zachary Lippman’s team found a way to boost tomato yield by digging into the plant’s genome and fine-tuning its branching patterns....
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Scientists have identified a receptor on plant stem cells that can issue different instructions about how the plant will grow....
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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...
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We look at the "reproducibility crisis" in science, with a cancer researcher discovering something he didn't expect while experimenting with MELK...
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Bruce Ratner and Stuart Weisbrod were elected to the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Board of Trustees...
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CRISPR was used to find 2 new druggable targets in a deadly leukemia...
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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...
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Researchers have developed a method for identifying splicing-based biomarkers for liver cancer...
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CSHL Fellow Semir Beyaz works on the effects of what we eat and how it affect the incidence of colorectal cancers....
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Douglas Fearon's team is figuring out how to get immune cells to recognize—and kill—pancreatic cancer cells...
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A simple genetic modification can triple grain production in sorghum, a drought-tolerant plant that is an important source of food and animal feed....
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CSHL Fellow Jason Sheltzer and his research team use CRISPR to discover that MELK is not actually involved in cancer....
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New research on the genetic causes of autism calls attention to diminished motor skills and suggests the importance of broad cognitive impairment...
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The Public Library of Science (PLOS) will now be automatically posting papers submitted to its journal on bioRxiv, CSHL's preprint server...
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Jackie Novatt was determined to show the people on her campus tours how science really works—and landed her dream job in the process....
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Professor Leemor Joshua-Tor receives the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology’s 2018 Mildred Cohn Award in Biological Chemistry....
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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....
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Congressman Suozzi hosts congratulatory event at CSHL for high school science competition winners, including two Partners for the Future participants...
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What makes us different from our primate relatives? Gene regulation is one important evolutionary factor...
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CSHL scientists have designed software that enables biologists to determine with unprecedented accuracy how much protein a given cell is making...
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David Haas was stunned to learn the impact of work he abandoned decades ago. He took a CSHL course to see it for himself....
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The Christina Renna Foundation donates over $30,000 for rhabdomyosarcoma research, and honors Associate Professor Chris Vakoc with its research award...
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Plant geneticist Rob Martienssen awarded prestigious McClintock Prize...
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Geneticists have solved a century-old mystery by discovering a remarkable mechanism that enables plants to count their chromosomes...
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How Professor Doug Fearon’s experiences with autoimmune disease patients contributed to the discovery of a new potential immunotherapy for cancer...
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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....
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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...
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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.'...
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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...
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CSHL Professor Bo Li and two collaborators at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) have been awarded a new grant under the BRAIN Initiative...
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CSH Seahawks Varsity football team present Professor Michael Ronemus with a check for $5,000 toward autism research...
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In this episode of Base Pairs, we discuss how genetic information is changing how we define important categories....
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David L. Spector was named a fellow of The American Society for Cell Biology...
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Associate Professor Anne Churchland was honored with The Louise Hanson Marshall Special Recognition Award...
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Experts find that current protocols for Lyme disease lacks the accuracy and sensitivity that next-generation testing can provide....
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The gender imbalance in slates of invited speakers for scientific conferences is an issue that CSHL's Women in Science and Engineering (WiSE) group...
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The news about prostate cancer can be confusing. It’s the third most common cancer type among Americans...
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A CSHL faculty member since 1995, a professor since 2005, Joshua-Tor is among the most distinguished members of the Laboratory community....
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Knowing that cancers become lethal when they spread, investigators at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory seek a way of detecting tumors much earlier ...
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Associate Professor Pavel Osten and colleagues discovered using their qBrain method is discerned by probing hidden relations among the dots....
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New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo visited Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory to break ground on the new $75 million Center for Therapeutics Research....
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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...
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The 12th annual Women’s Partnership for Science luncheon celebrated honorary director of the CSHL Association Freddie Staller....
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The 2017 Double Helix Medals were presented to Tom Brokaw and Helen Ann and Charles Dolan....
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Monn Monn Myat, Ph.D., is the new Associate Dean of the Watson School of Biological Sciences....
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For neuroscientists, the brain presents an almost endless number of mysteries to be solved....
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Four decades ago, scientists made a discovery that “completely transformed all of biology,” according to Nobelist James Watson. ...
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Assistant Professor Ullas Pedmale has received the National Institutes of Health "Outstanding Investigator Award."...
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Dr. Greg Hannon has been named the new director of the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, effective February 1, 2018....
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More than $4.5 million was raised last night at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory’s (CSHL) 12th Double Helix Medals dinner (DHMD)....
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David Micklos of the DNA Learning Center, and Miriam Rich, a research scholar, talk about the big issues of eugenics....
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The Friends of T.J. Foundation presented CSHL Associate Professor Chris Vakoc with a check for $50,000 for his ongoing rhabdomysarcoma research...
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Neuroscientists have clarified the mechanism used by newly born neurons in mice to migrate to very specific areas....
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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...
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The BRAIN Initiative Cell Census Network establishes a Center and a Collaboratory for the Mouse Brain Cell Atlas at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory ...
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Special cryo-EM imaging helps figure out how the double helix of DNA separates when it replicates...
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A team at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory led by Professor Bo Li found evidence indicating the central amygdala is key to to aversive learning....
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Associate Professor Mikala Egeblad discovers that neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs) help cancer by creating holes in the tissue....
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Members of the Masthead Cove Yacht Club (MCYC) raised $6,700 from their annual Masthead Race on August 13....
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On this episode, Base Pairs looks into the eugenics movement, including the record kept in CSHL....
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NY Governor Andrew M. Cuomo visited Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) this morning to break ground on the new $75 million Center for Therapeutics....
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A multiyear project in the Brain Initiative, qBrain is already revealing the brain as never before....
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Associate Professor Anne Churchland, co-founder the IBL along with Professor Tony Zador, explains how it could help solve a problem in neuroscience....
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Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory held the 16th annual Women's Partnership for Science luncheon, a summer staple among New York's female philanthropists....
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Neurons are defined by determining which cells they connect with and how they communicate across synapses ...
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Further discussion with Associate Professor Gurinder "Mickey" Atwal about the need for more math and physics in biology....
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Mutating regulatory regions varies yield traits the way a dimmer switch controls a light bulb...
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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...
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Inhibitory chandelier cells receive and transmit information from different ensembles of excitatory cells in their cortical neighborhood ...
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CSHL Women in Science and Engineering and the Postdoctoral Liaison Committee co-hosted the 2nd annual Greater NYC WiSE Summer Beach Party...
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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...
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Associate Professor Gurinder "Mickey" Atwal talks about the essential mystery at the center of quantitative biology....
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Leemor Joshua-Tor publishes atomic-resolution pictures and an analysis of RNAi machinery...
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Dr. Adam Kepecs receives grant to develop conceptual infrastructure for behavioral neuroscience research...
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An epigenetic factor reprograms gene enhancers, enabling cancer cells to “remember” an earlier developmental state and causing metastasis. ...
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CSHL researchers discover when ERα receptors are deleted in the brains of male mice, they do not exhibit typical "masculine" behaviors during puberty....
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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...
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New library of RNA sequences that can be used by researchers to direct the CRISPR-cas9 complex to cut DNA with unprecedented precision....
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This episode of Base Pairs talks to Associate Professor Zachary Lippman about all the weird mutations that naturally occur in plants....
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Miriam Rich, the recipient of CSHL’s 2017-18 Sydney Brenner Research Scholarship, is determined to show how the concept of “good genes” became...
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TUTase enzymes interact with let-7, a regulator of development; targeting them could help control certain cancers....
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Fragments snipped from tRNAs protect embryonic stem cells while they’re being epigenetically reprogrammed....
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Over 180 golfers took to the greens at Piping Rock Club at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory’s 24th annual golf tournament....
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J.C. Flowers Foundation grant gives practitioners in malaria-endemic areas access to a critical resource...
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Researchers find children with autism are genetically more like other autistic children than their unaffected siblings....
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This episode of Base Pairs looks at the issues climate change may bring to agriculture and how CRISPR can help overcome them....
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Sometimes viruses cause harmful infections, but students in the DNA Learning Center’s Urban Barcode Research Program identified a new virus that could...
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Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) welcomed 500+ new friends on June 10, 2017 to share the thrill of scientific discovery....
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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....
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Math isn’t exactly known as “everyone’s favorite subject,” yet Associate Professor Mickey Atwal has won the Watson School of Biological Science’s...
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Cancer cells, like stem cells, have the ability to multiply indefinitely but epigenetic factor BPTF may be a shared weakness....
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On Saturday, April 22, 2017, 245 people attended the 4th annual Hanging with Heroes fundraiser held at Driftwood Camp in Melville. ...
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Understanding gene interactions can enable breeders to break existing productivity barriers in agriculture....
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Confidence is “not just a feeling,” according to neuroscientist Adam Kepecs. Finding the confidence-calculating circuitry in our brains has huge...
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Drs. Molly Hammell and Thomas Gingeras talk about redefining what a biologist is and what genes are....
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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....
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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....
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Researchers have found important new clues to the development of pancreatic cancer....
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Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) Associate Professor Mikala Egeblad, Ph.D., has been awarded the Pershing Square Sohn Prize....
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Professor Leemor Joshua-Tor has been elected to The National Academy of Sciences (NAS)....
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For Alexa DeAngelis, who was recently awarded a Fulbright scholarship, combining a desire to help people with a passion for biochemistry means design...
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To accelerate the pace of scientific discovery, the bioRxiv preprint service will advance free distribution of research manuscript drafts....
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Effective advocacy for science is the culmination of many small steps...
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This episode of Base Pairs deals with the myth of "junk DNA" and why scientists are interested in non-coding portions of the genome....
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Professor Leemor Joshua-Tor is among 228 newly elected members of The American Academy of Arts and Sciences...
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Dr. Sordella and her team propose a novel theory of how some cancers circumvent the killing power of targeted therapies....
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New research demonstrates that some transposons are no longer effectively inhibited, resulting in a storm of jumping genes, leading to DNA damage....
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By revealing evidence that contradicts the rationale for a new cancer drug, a pair of student scientists learns firsthand that when you do science...
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Dr. Joanne Berger-Sweeney, president of Trinity College, was elected to the CSHL Board of Trustees....
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Human ORC complex captured in action in x-ray crystallography and cryo-EM...
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This episode of Base Pairs digs into "dark matter" a type of genetic information that could help scientists better understand diseases like...
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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 ...
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Researchers describe how dopamine-releasing neurons weigh the ambiguity of sensory information, indicating that neurons are highly sophisticated....
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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...
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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....
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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...
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Researchers finds that stroma,“wound”-like tissue that surrounds the tumors, helps explain why pancreatic cancer is so resistant to treatment....
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Researchers at CSHL have discovered that a protein called Importin-11 protects the anti-cancer protein PTEN from destruction by transporting it....
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CSHL statement regarding Executive Order on border security and immigration...
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A special bonus episode of Base Pairs offering an explanation of why the name "Base Pairs" was chosen...
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Researchers found that the failure of the Mecp2 gene, which leads to Rett syndrome, has biological consequences later in life....
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Northwell Health and Indivumed collaborate to greatly expand cancer biobanking activities within Northwell Health to develop medical approaches....
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Pre-malignant aneuploid cells grew more slowly and formed smaller tumors than comparable cells with normal chromosome number, CSHL researchers found....
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Dr. Stillman and Dr. Tuveson joined with the leaders of other institutions nationwide in endorsing a statement regarding the HPV vaccine....
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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...
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Austin’s Purpose presented CSHL Hiro Furukawa with a donation to continue NMDA research....
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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. ...
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Nusinersen (Spinraza) will be used to treat young children with a severe and potentially fatal illness called spinal muscular atrophy (SMA)....
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Join Glen Cove CARES for their 20th Anniversary celebration....
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The Manhasset Women's Coalition Against Breast Cancer presented a check to support Dr. Camila dos Santos' breast cancer research....
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This episode of BasePairs looks at the problems of neuropsychiatric drug discovery, and the method by which they may soon be resolved....
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Eli Gordon, kicker for the Cold Spring Harbor football team, presented a check today for $1,000.00 for breast cancer research....
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Dr. Robert G. Maki an internationally-renowned sarcoma cancer physician and researcher, joins the leadership of the Northwell Health Cancer Institute....
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An interview with actor and science communication advocate Alan Alda about his work at the Alda Center for Communicating Science....
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Truncated p53 proteins, presumed unimportant, now point to new drug targets for some of "the hardest cancers"...
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When you give to Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, you are making an investment in the careers of young scientists....
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Researchers use CRISPR to expand the geographical range of important food crops....
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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...
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Professor Adrian Krainer develops a treatment for spinal muscular atrophy, the leading genetic cause of infant death....
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Drugs precisely targeting portions of the NMDA receptor may have applications in Alzheimer’s, depression and schizophrenia....
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Dr. David Tuveson, M.D., Ph.D., succeeds Dr. Bruce Stillman as Director of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) Cancer Center....
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For Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month, Base Pairs looks at the science of antioxidants and cancer....
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Members of Trotman don fake moustaches in order to raise money for prostate cancer research during Movember. ...
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RNAi and other epigenetic processes induce changes in where and when specific genes are expressed without altering their genetic code....
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Research reveals a mechanism that causes wasting in cancer and tests a way to reverse it....
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Researchers use RNA sequencing to identify a network of genes that work together to determine the duration of a critical window for growth....
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Claire Friedlander Family Foundation donated $200,000 for new equipment at the Woodbury Genome Center....
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Lyme disease researcher Steven Schutzer talks about the important meetings held in the Banbury Center....
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Associate Professor Mickey Atwal explains how exploring numbers and patterns could lead to a new cancer treatment strategy....
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Neutrophils, the most common type of white blood cell, can be taken over by cancer cells and used as an aid in metastasis....
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Members of the Masthead Cove Yacht Club (MCYC) raised $7,007 from their annual Masthead Race on August 14, 2016....
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This episode of Base Pairs follows Professor Adrian Krainer and his experience as the first CSHL fellow....
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David Tuveson discusses the relationship between antioxidants and cancer, and how the former doesn't necessarily prevent the latter....
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CSHL scientists test an antisense method of targeting long noncoding RNAs overexpressed in breast cancers....
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Kayla Funk, a childhood cancer survivor, on her experiences with pediatric cancer and the push for more funding for research....
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Researchers have uncovered a neural circuit that processes evaluations and have succeeded in identifying its sources....
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Researchers at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory created a set of tools that combine genetic markers and virus particles to target GABA cell types....
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15th Annual Women's Partnership raises over $200,000 for disease research at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory...
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LI2Day donated $2,000 to CSHL, having donated nearly $300,000 to support breast cancer research at the CSHL since 2004....
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Regina Caliendo and Doris Jelinek presented a $10,000 check to Dr. Sarah Diermeier for breast cancer research....
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Associate Professor Christopher Vakoc on why calling pediatric cancers "rare" actually hurts their chances of being studied....
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This episode of Base Pairs looks at the rising population, plant biology, and the future of food....
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Nobel laureate Richard Roberts discusses the importance of RNA splicing and how scientists can learn from "failed" experiments....
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Increased support will fuel continued growth and technical development of the increasingly prominent biomedical preprint service....
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We live in exciting times. Until recently, the microscope was the only way for scientists to take a closer look at microorganisms. ...
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MAPseq can trace the long-range projections of large numbers of individual neurons from a specific region to wherever they lead in the brain....
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This episode on Base Pairs explores how genetic information to better understand human history....
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Biotechnology firms Biogen and Ionis Pharmaceuticals cut short a phase-3 clinical trial for the investigational drug nusinersen as it met endpoint....
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Graduate student Lisa Krug discusses her research and personal connection to ALS, and Ride for Life, a not-for-profit organization for ALS research....
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Researchers demonstrate that in the specific context of pancreatic cells leading to cancer, raisin antioxidant levels should not be raised....
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Team explains a key mechanism to prevent aberrant cell proliferation...
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With DNA barcoding, high school seniors Sydney Lyncook and Tanjil Uddin realized that they had the power to show whether the manufacturers of ...
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This episode of Base Pairs covers the contentious genetics and history of America’s corn production....
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A team of researchers at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory discovers new insights into signaling events that underlie metastasis in ovarian cancer cells....
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Researchers identify a new drug target in leukemia and creation of a candidate drug that hits the target....
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Professor Greg Hannon and his team, including Assistant Professor Camila dos Santos, learn more about breast cells and tissue....
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CSHL partners with Research!America to find out where political candidates stand on support for basic research....
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Assistant Professor Camila dos Santos of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) has been selected as one of seven 2016 Rita Allen Foundation Scholars. ...
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The genome of the corn plant “is a lot more exciting” than scientists have previously believed....
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In the pilot episode of Base Pairs, two stories of DNA research that show how far the field has come...
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Daniel Rodríguez-Leal, Ph.D., a postdoctoral investigator was selected for the Pew Latin American Fellows in the Biomedical Sciences...
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Key takeaways from the lecture “Bench to Bioscience Enterprise” which talks about the connections between business and science....
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Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory has received Charity Navigator’s highest possible 4-star rating for the 15th time...
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The WTFC Foundation held its 10th Annual "The Breast of Everything" fundraiser, raising over $40,000 to support breast cancer research...
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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 ...
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Associate Professor Christopher Vakoc of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory is among seven winners of the third annual Pershing Square Sohn Prize...
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CSHL gathered to welcome Chris Pendergast and his ALS Ride for Life team to campus on Monday, May 16....
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Researchers discover a new regulatory pathway that channels signals emanating from a plant's extremities to the stem cell niche....
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The brain produces feelings of confidence that inform decisions the same way statistics pulls patterns out of noisy data....
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Josh Sanders developed a series of tools for neuroscience research that filled major needs in the field....
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On May 1, proud friends and family mingled with distinguished scientists at the 13th commencement ceremony of the Watson School of Biological Sciences...
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Mickey Atwal is the third two-time winner of the Winship Herr Award for Excellence and Creativity in Teaching....
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Structural biologists obtained snapshots of the activation of an important type of brain-cell receptor....
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Watson School awards seven Ph.D. degrees, to students who studied topics ranging from single-cell sequence data analysis to acute myeloid leukemia....
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Ivan Iossifov talks about some of the reasons why autism disproportionately effects boys on a genetic level....
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CSHL announced the Center for Therapeutics Research project, applying biomedical expertise towards advancing therapeutics for genetic diseases....
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A discussion with Ivan Iossifov with what exactly the term "risk genes" means and what they do....
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Adrian Krainer was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences....
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Andrew Whiteley joined the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Office of Technology Transfer as the first Executive in Residence....
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A look at the research which points to the different genes potentially at the root of autism....
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Associate Professor Bo Li and Assistant Professor Je Lee, are among 25 teams that have won Human Frontier Science Program Research Program Grants...
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Associate Professor Ivan Iossifov discusses how parents who are not autistic can pass autism onto their children through their genes....
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U.S. Patent & Trademark Office has denied all 4 petitions filed by Benitec Biopharma Ltd seeking to invalidate CSHL's patents directed to shRNA....
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Neuroscientist Matt Kaufman uses brief, ultrafast laser pulses to understand how the brain makes sensory-guided decisions....
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Neuroscientists talk about the importance of the intersections between theory and experiment, and how it has shaped their work....
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The Joni Gladowsky Foundation holds its annual Winter Classic Hockey Tournament....
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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....
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Using several different methods of DNA analysis, an international research team has found what they consider to be strong evidence of interbreeding....
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Reseachers discovered the purpose of a tool present in both mosses and flowering plants, organisms whose common ancestor dates back 450 million years....
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A story on Mikala Egeblad's breast cancer research and the importance of the tumor microenvironment....
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Stand Up for Suzanne, a Long Island-based group founded to support cutting edge research at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory held their annual luncheon...
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The Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering announced a cross-institutional consortium to map the brain's neural circuits....
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The Christina Renna Foundation presented $35,000 to Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) at its 9th annual Angel's Wish Gala....
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Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory joined 68 other top cancer centers in issuing a statement urging increased HPV vaccination for the prevention of cancer...
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An interview with Partners for the Future participant Tamanna Bhatia and her work in Alea Mill's lab studying cancer cells....
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The enhanced NSF project will now provide data management and computation across scientific disciplines...
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Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory announced that authors of manuscripts posted on its preprint server can now submit papers directly to leading journals....
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A discussion of female rats as research subjects and how their hormonal cycle comes into play....
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In celebration of scientist Milislav Demerec, a look at how he discovered a strain of Penicillium that more effectively produced pencillin....
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The Clark Gillies Foundation presented $50,000 to Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) in support of the Sarcoma Research Project...
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Researchers publish preclinical data suggesting the promise of a novel drug directed against a novel target n malignant mammary tumors....
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Students from the West Side Elementary School learn about the history and workings of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory....
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Research team succeeds in paradoxically inhibiting a process cells have evolved to prevent imperfect proteins from being synthesized...
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Dr. Michelle Cilia has made it her mission to understand the bacteria and viruses that strike plants—and how to stop them...
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The case of Marvin Lamont Anderson, who was exonerated through the use of DNA evidence....
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A geneticist uses social media and online tools to help confirm, document and describe in precise clinical detail a new genetic syndrome in young ...
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Researchers have for the first time observed direct evidence of synaptic plasticity in fruit flies while they learn....
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Anthony Zador was selected by the editors of the prestigious journal Foreign Policy as one of the Top 100 Leading Global Thinkers of 2015....
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Researchers report a surprising mechanism through which an important new candidate drug against leukemia exerts its therapeutic effect....
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Local high school students raise over $3,500 for pancreatic cancer research during the Long Island Pancreatic Cancer Research Walk....
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Members of the Masthead Cove Yacht Club (MCYC) raised $7,124 from their annual Masthead Race....
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Dawid Nowak discusses the difficulties and challenges involved in understanding pancreatic cancer....
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Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory announced the election of George D. Yancopoulos, M.D., Ph.D to its Board of Trustees....
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Researchers found deleting the genes for enzymes in two plants widely separated in evolutionary time resulted in similar defects....
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Camila dos Santos talks about what she has learned by talking with breast cancer survivors....
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The 10th Double Helix Medals dinner honored Katie Couric, Anne Wojcicki and David Botstein, champions of research to benefit mankind....
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High school senior Ryan Chester was awarded the first-ever Breakthrough Junior Challenge prize....
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Robert Aboukhalil use his skills as a computational biologist to make single-cell genomic data easy for scientists and clinicians to access and use....
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A look at how several researchers at CSHL contribute to the field of breast cancer research....
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A historical look back at the 1989 meeting at the Banbury Center which sparked the idea of the Human Genome Project....
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Michael Maringo established the Carissa Maringo Fund to support breast cancer research at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory...
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The Friends of TJ Foundation presented a check for $50,000 to CSHL Associate Professor Chris Vakoc...
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ALS Ride For Life this month presented $300,000 to CSHL Assistant Professor Molly Hammell and Associate Professor Josh Dubnau...
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Scientists have identified a protein the Piwi system uses to guide a cell's gene-silencing machinery to the right spots in the genome....
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A look at the career of Mary-Claire King a geneticist who worked on the causes of breast cancer....
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Scientists have discovered the point at which incoming sensory information begins to transform into a neural signal that instructs a fly's response....
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CSHL Lab Fellow Jason Sheltzer won the 2015 Early Independence Award from the National Institutes of Health High Risk, High Reward Research Program...
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A look back at the start of the Human Genome Project and CSHL's James Watson's role in it....
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Researchers have identified cellular changes that may play a role in converting normal breast cells into tumors....
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Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) held the 14th annual Women's Partnership for Science luncheon....
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Scientists find evidence suggesting that devastating “ultra-rare” mutations play a causal role in roughly half of all autism spectrum disorders....
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Worm’s genome could lead to better understanding of its regenerative prowess and advance stem cell biology....
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A look at the career of an editor at a prestigious scientific journal....
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A way to prevent damaged plantlets from being grown, to boost yield and reduce tropical land pressure....
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Dr. Evelyn Witkin was honored at age 94 with a Lasker Award for achievement in Basic Science...
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Online app could help clinicians choose the best treatments by comparing genetic fingerprints of individual cells...
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Graduate student Annabel Romero Hernandez spent 244 days portraying the world around her on a very small scale....
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Stand Up for Suzanne to hold fundraiser in support of breast cancer research at CSHL...
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The $19,000 donation received by CSHL will support breast cancer research in the laboratory of Professor Alea Mills....
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184 golfers took to the greens at Piping Rock Club for Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory's 22nd annual golf tournament...
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Researchers find dedicated neurons that rapidly informing multiple subregions in the brain of any surprising rewards or punishments....
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2 credit continuing education class for accountants on Estate Planning will be held at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory on 10/6/15....
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Swim Across America held its annual "Cove to Sound" swim at Morgan's Park in Glen Cove, NY on August 8, 2015...
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Abram Handly Santana wants to understand how the tumor microenvironment contributes to pancreas cancer...
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A team at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory find a new approach for treating Rett syndrome, a devastating autism spectrum disorder...
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These proceeds will support breast cancer research in the laboratory of CSHL Professor Nicholas Tonks....
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Stephanie de Lesseps organizes a color run that earned $10,000 for autism research at CSHL....
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Mejia will receive funding for at least two years from the Foundation, works in the laboratory of Dr. Bo Li...
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Watson School of Biological Science ‘07 alumna Dr. Elizabeth Murchison studies cancers in domestic dogs, soft-shell clams and Tasmanian devils...
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Scientists work to figure out how to capture, store, process and interpret all that genome-encoded biological information....
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A look at alumna Dr. Monica Dus....
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Researchers discover neural circuit in the mouse olfactory bulb that shows how our mammalian cousins adjust to intense odors....
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July 7 marks the first day of the first course given at The Brooklyn Institute's Laboratory of Biological Research at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. ...
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Long Island University - Post and Adelphi University researchers team up with CSHL to study the Asian shorecrab....
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Student researches non-coding mutations responsible for changes in human gene expression....
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The event was held at Syosset-Woodbury Community Park and included a Junior Outdoor Hockey Game, an Adult Outdoor Hockey Game and 2 Family Open Skates...
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Celebrating Barbara McClintock's birthday with a painting by Elizabeth Turnbull inspired by the Nobel laureate....
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Over 600 people converged on CSHL this past Saturday for the Laboratory’s 125th Anniversary Open House....
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Alumnus receives five-year Investigators in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease Burroughs Wellcome Fund grant to fight malaria...
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Research shows how signaling by an immune system component appears to play an important role in driving particularly aggressive prostate cancer...
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Researchers study the feedback loop of the olfactory bulb sends output to and receives feedback from multiple parts of the brain...
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The uniquely structured grant reflects a commitment by The Pershing Square Foundation to support exceptional leadership and innovative organizations....
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The remarks of Jack Walleshauser at the 2015 Watson School of Biological Sciences graduation....
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Researchers discover that cancer progress differently based on characteristics of the tumor microenvironment....
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Researchers identified a set of genes that control stem cell production in tomato, which affects its size....
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Timmermans was one of five foreign researchers awarded an Alexander von Humboldt Professorship ...
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Inhibiting a protein called BRD4 critical to the survival of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) cells has shown to be an effective therapeutic strategy....
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Dr. Kepecs and Dr. Li received two-year grants to fund their important research....
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Researchers use CRISPR to find binding pockets inside cancer cells, that when blocked, prevent the cells from proliferating and cause them to die....
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Anecdotal reports of nursing mothers have long suggested that giving milk is a lot easier in second and subsequent pregnancies....
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CSHL annually generates $150 million in economic output and accounts for 1,629 jobs and $93 million in earnings; more expected in the future...
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Associate Professor Bo Li wins the Winship Herr Award in 2015....
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Rsearchers discovered a new pathway, which contains at least two potentially powerful drug targets...
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Charlie Rose, Dr. Hanna Gray, Lord David Sainsbury receive honorary degrees...
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Sunday, April 19, marks the 12th Watson School commencement, and fittingly, we are awarding twelve Ph.D. degrees....
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Assistant Professor Christopher R. Vakoc, receives the 35th annual AACR Outstanding Achievement in Cancer Research Award...
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Alexander Gann has been awarded a 2015 Guggenheim Fellowship in science writing....
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Scientists discover new evidence explaining precisely how the protein encoded by PTEN (called PTEN) works...
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The gene called PTEN is one of the most important of the body’s natural tumor suppressors....
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Watson School graduate Kristen Delevich studies how different brain regions communicate with one another ...
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“Vascular mimicry” observed in mice could be helping tumors evade anti-angiogenesis drugs...
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Researchers discover an inhibitory connection between certain brain areas that can control the timing of information flow to the prefrontal cortex ...
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Dr. Watson donates $1million to the Laboratory in support of biomedical research and education programs....
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Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and the North Shore-LIJ Health System announced a strategic affiliation....
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An official recognition of Jerome Swartz for his 25+ years of friendship and generous support of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory neuroscience programs ...
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Aboff’s presented a check this month for $10,107 to Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory for breast cancer research....
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Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory engaged Hairpin Technologies Inc. to expand the commercial distribution and research use of short hairpin RNA....
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Representing numbers as a range of possible values allows people to utilize multiple streams of information, leading to improved decisions...
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The story of a high school student working with Michael Schatz to create an app that analyzes DNA....
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CSHL announced a collaboration with GSK to develop a treatment for obesity and type 2 diabetes....
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Ian Peikon is the 4th Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory graduate student to win the Harold M. Weintraub award...
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Charles S. Ryan joins CSHL as the Laboratory’s new General Counsel...
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Student Jackie Giovanniello works to develop better treatment options for patients....
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Team finds that both copies of the Oct4 gene come together just as embryonic stem cells begin to develop into tissue-specific cell types...
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Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory honors Trudy and Tom Calabrese and celebrates its 22nd Annual Golf Tournament at Piping Rock Club...
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Postmortem brain slices can be “read” to determine how a mouse was trained to behave in response to specific sounds ...
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Join CSHL's TEAM and raise money for breast cancer research...
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Stand Up for Suzanne held its 2nd annual fundraiser at The Milleridge Cottage....
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Associate Professor Michael Schatz receives a 2015 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship...
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Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory is the proud recipient of proceeds from the Joni Gladowsky Breast Cancer Foundation's Tenth Annual Golf Outing...
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Student Kachi Odoemene works on studying repression of neuronal activity and contributes to decision-making...
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Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory joins with Girls Who Code to empower girls into a future in STEM and technology....
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Molecular photographs of an enzyme bound to RNA reveal a new, inherent quality control mechanism...
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The Christina Renna Foundation presented $30,000 to Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) at their 8th annual Angel's Wish Gala...
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Scientists develop a computational method to estimate the importance of each letter in the human genome...
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A discussion on the mission of Christina Renna Foundation and its fight against pediatric cancers....
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Researchers discover a pathway in that mouse brain that regulates fear memory and behavior ...
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Organoid technology with human tissue provides a model for full progression of the disease...
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Researchers find that in mouse models of the disease subcutaneous drug administration is sufficient to treat SMA ...
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In rats, olfactory bulb neurons use simple ‘linear summation’ to make sense of fluctuating odor inputs from the surrounding environment...
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New discovery may make it easy for cancer surgeons to determine if a patient has a potentially lethal mutation....
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Automated method detects activity of neurons during specific behaviors, brainwide, at cellular resolution...
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Manhasset Women’s Coalition Against Breast Cancer raises $100,000 to support breast cancer research...
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The Breast Cancer Research Program as among the beneficiaries of this year's annual Pink Ribbon Bagel campaign....
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Scientists identify a neural pathway that controls attention, with implications for psychiatric disorders ...
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The Board of Directors of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) elected three new trustees at its November 2014 meeting....
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Jack Walleshauser wins the student poster prize at the 2014 in-house symposium....
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Scientists devised a powerful algorithm that improves the effectiveness of research technology harnessing RNA interference ...
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Four decades after this photo was taken, a Nobel Prize was awarded to McClintock, acknowledging her discovery that genetic material is not fixed...
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Researchers have identified some 6600 genes whose level of expression varies within a comparatively restricted range in humans and mice...
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An interview with newly hired investigators Scott Lyons and Lingbo Zhang....
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More than $4 million was raised the evening of November 12 for Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory’s (CSHL) research and education programs....
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Interviews with new junior faculty members Jessica Tollkuhn and Je Lee...
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Interviews with new faculty Adam Siepel and Douglas Fearon....
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Study suggests a unified model for how DNA is read, offering insight into how genes evolve...
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New findings challenge assumptions about how information is encoded in the brain...
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Ian Peikon, inventor of DIATROL, looks to map all the connections between all of the neurons in the entire brain....
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An array of gene variants provides “breakthrough benefits” in tomato yield for breeders; other crops next...
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CSHL partnered Research!America in a bipartisan effort to find out where political candidates stand on research funding....
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CSHL is launching a highly targeted effort to combat a rare and deadly type of sarcoma called rhabdomyosarcoma....
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The last common ancestor of all animals, some 600 million years old, was not as primitive as most experts have assumed....
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Our picture of how genetic errors contribute to autism has just gotten sharper....
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Nearly two dozen physicians and researchers took a close scientific view of lung cancer progression for diagnostic purposes....
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Scientists find a new role for RNAi protein Dicer in preventing collisions during DNA replication....
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Scientists are surprised to find that rats and mice perform similarly in cognitive tests....
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Daniel Kepple hopes to figure out the chemical and neuronal rules that determine what something smells like...
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Cristina Aguirre-Chen, Ph.D., a postdoc in Assistant Professor Chris Hammell’s lab discusses her experience at the Rally for Medical Research....
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Four scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) will perform research in President Obama’s BRAIN Initiative under two new CSHL grants...
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The proceeds were donated to support cancer research conducted by CSHL Professor Nicholas Tonks. ...
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CSHL neuroscientist Dr. Anne Churchland delivers keynote on decision-making ...
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Scientists uncover the neural basis of confidence in the rat brain...
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Researchers found that human, fly, and worm genomes have a number of key genomic processes in common, reflecting their shared ancestry....
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A graduate student from the Watson School of Biological Sciences talks about the school's history and programs....
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Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and 17 other breast cancer beneficiary groups received over $525,000 in funding for breast cancer research....
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What happens inside cells when they detect the activation of a cancer-inducing gene? ...
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Award supports exploratory research with potential for transformative insights – part of BRAIN Initiative...
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Scientists develop algorithm to uncover genomic insertions and deletions involved in autism, OCD...
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Researchers identify microRNAs that differentiate male and female fruit flies...
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Molecular structure reveals how a protein reads RNAs to preserve stem cell identity ...
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The National Science Foundation (NSF) has selected Assistant Professor Michael Schatz, Ph.D to receive its prestigious CAREER Award....
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Researchers have discovered a new function of the body’s most important tumor-suppressing protein....
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Today, scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory are working with the community to make sure that kids are exposed to research at a young age...
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Closely related organisms share most of their genes, but these similarities belie major differences in behavior, intelligence, and physical appearance...
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In several trials, antioxidant supplementation has been linked with increased rates of certain cancers....
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Lital Chartarifsky, a former URP, and her journey to neuroscience research....
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Laboratory Trustee Ed Travaglianti honored for longstanding service at annual golf outing....
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CSHL announced a $50 million gift from Jim and Marilyn Simons to establish the Simons Center for Quantitative Biology....
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Dr. Hammell wins an award for young investigators for innovative biomedical research...
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Dr. Churchland receives award that honors excellence in neuroscience and biomedical research ...
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There are new clues about malfunctions in brain cells that contribute to intellectual disability and possibly other developmental brain disorders. ...
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Postdoctoral researcher Michael Hübner discusses how big data is being used in genomics and disease research....
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Dr. Egeblad receives a multi-year, $2.5 million Department of Defense grant to advance cutting-edge breast cancer research ...
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CSHL Director of Research Professor David Spector discusses his visit to the Horace Mann School....
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CSHL ramps up licensing of its short-hairpin RNA technology already used widely in cancer research and drug development...
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Professor David L. Spector and team discover some monoallelically expressed genes encoded extra RNA, even though they are missing their other gene....
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NMDA receptor malfunction is implicated in Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, depression, schizophrenia, autism, and stroke...
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Researchers identify neurons that determine whether an individual will be depressed or resilient ...
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Student Georgi Yordanov looks to study how cancer cells communicate with the normal cells surrounding them in a tumor....
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Student Maria Nattestad looks to develop a fast and accurate way of putting short DNA sequences back together into the long, linear sequences...
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11 students graduate from the Watson School of Biological Sciences...
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Researchers report a discovery that they hope will lead to the development of a powerful new way of treating an aggressive form of breast cancer....
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Miriam Fein, a graduate student working in Egeblad lab, ...
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Scientists find a protein that controls DNA organization during sperm development ...
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European Molecular Biology Organization, has elected CSHL Professor David L. Spector, Ph.D., to its ranks....
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Watson School celebrates its 15th classes graduation, and Dr. Richard Burgess is awarded an honorary degree ...
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Associate Professor Award encourages young investigators to take risks in search of a cure...
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Research Assistant Professor Mike Ronemus talks about the importance of understanding the genetics of autism....
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New evidence supports theory that some cases of schizophrenia and autism have malfunctions in some of the same genes are contributing to pathology....
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Professor David L. Spector, Ph.D. has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences....
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Dr. Bruce Stillman, President of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL), is the 2014 winner of the Herbert Tabor Research Award....
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An interview with The Emperor of Maladies author Siddartha Mukherjee...
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More than 100 faculty and administrators meet to discuss how to involve more undergraduate students in science research....
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President of the Don Monti Memorial Research Foundation presented Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory with a donation of $500,000....
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New research indicates a link between certain kinds of early stress and dysfunction in the neuroendocrine system....
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A new mathematical model uses gene expression data to predict where neurons are located throughout the brain...
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microRNAs are found to target ‘jumping genes’ in reproductive cells, protecting against genomic damage...
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The 3D Brain app is an interactive, three-dimensional model of the human brain...
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Why is histone H3.3 associated with active genes, but histone H3.1 is not?...
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Cold Spring Harbor High School student Skyler Palatnick interviews David L. Spector on his career as a cancer researcher....
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Ohr Pharmaceutical and CSHL announce a new joint venture to develop trodusquemine and related analogs....
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Swim Across America (SAA) Nassau Suffolk Committee distributed the net proceeds of its 2013 Swims to six Long Island and metro area beneficiaries....
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For the first time, scientists monitor inhibitory neurons that link sense of smell with memory and cognition in mice...
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A new hypothesis of type 2 diabetes causation published in the British medical journal The Lancet...
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Team finds that some cells activate only one of their two gene copies during development, altering protein yields and raising new questions...
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New application of a classic concept challenges the latest statistical tools....
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‘Far-reaching’ neurons connect the amygdala with fear response center to control behavior...
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The new model, known as RapidCaP, reveals a cancer-gene ‘switch’ that drives metastasis ...
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Structural biologists have obtained important scientific results likely to advance efforts to develop new drugs targeting NMDA receptors in the brain...