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CSHL Stories and Media archive for Tag: Cancer Genetics Program

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 »

Next-gen cancer test

11/24/2017

Knowing that cancers become lethal when they spread, investigators at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory seek a way of detecting tumors much earlier Read the story »

What a real-life science test looks like

3/24/2017

By revealing evidence that contradicts the rationale for a new cancer drug, a pair of student scientists learns firsthand that when you do science. Read the story »

Relationship between incorrect chromosome number and cancer is reassessed after surprising experiments

1/12/2017

Pre-malignant aneuploid cells grew more slowly and formed smaller tumors than comparable cells with normal chromosome number, CSHL researchers found. Read the story »

A theoretical physicist’s approach to breast cancer

10/21/2016

Associate Professor Mickey Atwal explains how exploring numbers and patterns could lead to a new cancer treatment strategy. Read the story »

CSHL scientists Bo Li and Je Lee win HFSP Research Grant awards

4/12/2016

Associate Professor Bo Li and Assistant Professor Je Lee, are among 25 teams that have won Human Frontier Science Program Research Program Grants Read the story »

Introducing the mighty Panoramix–defender of genomes!

10/15/2015

Scientists have identified a protein the Piwi system uses to guide a cell's gene-silencing machinery to the right spots in the genome. Read the story »

CSHL Fellow wins 2015 NIH Early Independence Award for cancer research

10/6/2015

CSHL Lab Fellow Jason Sheltzer won the 2015 Early Independence Award from the National Institutes of Health High Risk, High Reward Research Program Read the story »

Scientists sequence genome of worm that can regrow body parts, seek stem cell insights

9/21/2015

Worm’s genome could lead to better understanding of its regenerative prowess and advance stem cell biology. Read the story »

Mathematical ‘Gingko trees’ reveal mutations in single cells that characterize diseases

9/4/2015

Online app could help clinicians choose the best treatments by comparing genetic fingerprints of individual cells. Read the story »

12th annual LI2DAY Walk raises over $400,000

9/1/2015

The $19,000 donation received by CSHL will support breast cancer research in the laboratory of Professor Alea Mills. Read the story »

The biggest beast in the Big Data forest? One field’s astonishing growth is, well, ‘genomical’!

7/6/2015

Scientists work to figure out how to capture, store, process and interpret all that genome-encoded biological information. Read the story »

Scientists show the mammary gland ‘remembers’ prior pregnancy, spurring milk production

5/7/2015

Anecdotal reports of nursing mothers have long suggested that giving milk is a lot easier in second and subsequent pregnancies. Read the story »

Tumor cells that mimic blood vessels could help breast cancer spread to other sites

4/8/2015

“Vascular mimicry” observed in mice could be helping tumors evade anti-angiogenesis drugs Read the story »

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory engages Hairpin Technologies Inc. to license its short hairpin RNA (shRNA) technology

3/31/2015

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory engaged Hairpin Technologies Inc. to expand the commercial distribution and research use of short hairpin RNA. Read the story »

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