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Hundreds of scientists working at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory contribute research published in major research journals, in the fields of Cancer, Neuroscience, Plant Biology, Quantitative Biology, and Genomics.

From many mice, unexpected genius

10/31/2018

Researchers find that some individual mice are smarter than their fellow rodents, which can provide insights into decision-making. Read the story »

How a sleeping cancer awakens and metastasizes

9/27/2018

Chronic inflammation can reawaken dormant cancer cells and spur metastasis. It may be preventable Read the story »

Progress toward improved Wilson’s disease drug

6/27/2018

Encouraging early results in a potential new treatment for Wilson's disease. Read the story »

Researchers discover new type of lung cancer

6/25/2018

Researchers have discovered a new form of lung cancer. Read the story »

Organoid profiling personalizes treatments for pancreatic cancer

5/31/2018

Pancreatic organoids grown from patients' tumors make precision medicine possible Read the story »

How pancreatic cancer spreads after surgery

5/17/2018

Researchers have solved a mystery about how pancreatic cancer spreads Read the story »

Study reveals a way to make prostate cancer cells run out of energy and die

4/3/2018

In lethal prostate cancer, the gene PTEN is often missing. In such cases, one effective treatment may be to administer drugs that inhibit mitochondria Read the story »

Unique communication strategy discovered in pathway controlling plant growth

3/22/2018

Scientists have identified a receptor on plant stem cells that can issue different instructions about how the plant will grow. Read the story »

The secret to tripling the number of grains in sorghum and perhaps other staple crops

2/26/2018

A simple genetic modification can triple grain production in sorghum, a drought-tolerant plant that is an important source of food and animal feed. Read the story »

geographic distribution of 13 rice varieties

More rice, please: 13 rice genomes reveal ways to keep up with ever-growing population

2/1/2018

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. Read the story »

Evolving sets of gene regulators explain some of our differences from other primates

1/29/2018

What makes us different from our primate relatives? Gene regulation is one important evolutionary factor Read the story »

New method to determine before surgery which prostate tumors pose a lethal threat

12/1/2017

The news about prostate cancer can be confusing. It’s the third most common cancer type among Americans. Read the story »

First cell-type census of mouse brains: surprises about structure, male-female differences

10/5/2017

A multiyear project in the Brain Initiative, qBrain is already revealing the brain as never before. Read the story »

Neuron types in the brain are defined by gene activity that shapes their communication patterns

9/21/2017

Neurons are defined by determining which cells they connect with and how they communicate across synapses Read the story »

Plant geneticists develop a new application of CRISPR to break yield barriers in crops

9/14/2017

Mutating regulatory regions varies yield traits the way a dimmer switch controls a light bulb Read the story »

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