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Taking uncertainty out of cancer prognosis

December 11, 2018

CSHL Fellow Jason Sheltzer has analyzed nearly 20,000 cancer patient histories and genetic data to take the guesswork out of prognosis.

CSHL to lead international team developing next-generation organoid cancer research

May 11, 2017

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.

Newly discovered mutations impair key cell pathways in pancreatic cancer

May 8, 2017

Researchers have found important new clues to the development of pancreatic cancer.

New research explains why even targeted therapies eventually fail in lung cancer

March 29, 2017

Dr. Sordella and her team propose a novel theory of how some cancers circumvent the killing power of targeted therapies.

Cancer research biobank formed by Northwell Health and Indivumed will enhance CSHL-Northwell alliance

January 17, 2017

Northwell Health and Indivumed collaborate to greatly expand cancer biobanking activities within Northwell Health to develop medical approaches.

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

January 12, 2017

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

Researchers identify potentially druggable mutant p53 proteins that promote cancer growth

December 9, 2016

Truncated p53 proteins, presumed unimportant, now point to new drug targets for some of "the hardest cancers"

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

April 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

Introducing the mighty Panoramix–defender of genomes!

October 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.

CSHL Fellow wins 2015 NIH Early Independence Award for cancer research

October 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

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

September 21, 2015

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

Research bench to writing desk with alum Darren Burgess

September 17, 2015

A look at the career of an editor at a prestigious scientific journal.

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

September 4, 2015

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

12th annual LI2DAY Walk raises over $400,000

September 1, 2015

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

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

July 6, 2015

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

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