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An essay from the President: Biology for the planet

May 16, 2019

CSHL plant scientists are looking for solutions to the biggest questions in agriculture as environments are reshaped by climate change.

Profile: Doreen Ware champions the plant genome

May 8, 2019

Molecular biologist Doreen Ware uses computer science to parse out the genetic roadmaps of plants.

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory announces exclusive license with plant breeding start-up Inari

April 16, 2019

CSHL announced a licensing agreement with partner Inari, a company that is advancing plant breeding by tapping nature’s genetic diversity.

The year of CRISPR

December 26, 2018

A look at the various labs across CSHL that utilize CRISPR in their research, and the groundbreaking discoveries they help uncover.

CRISPR could bring groundcherries to market

October 1, 2018

CSHL Professor Zachary Lippman uses CRISPR to make the groundcherry more suitable for large-scale farming

A science writer’s quest to understand heredity

May 30, 2018

LabDish spoke with science writer Carl Zimmer about what he learned about heredity as he zig-zagged through CSHL while writing his new book.

Evans Foundation MDS Young Investigator Award to Lingbo Zhang

March 28, 2018

CSHL Fellow Lingbo Zhang received a Young Investigator Award from the Edward P. Evans Foundation

The cancer answer that wasn’t

March 15, 2018

We look at the "reproducibility crisis" in science, with a cancer researcher discovering something he didn't expect while experimenting with MELK

CRISPR-based system identifies important new drug targets in a deadly leukemia

March 8, 2018

CRISPR was used to find 2 new druggable targets in a deadly leukemia

“Hi, my name is Brian”…“and I’m Andrea”

November 22, 2017

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

Big decisions

November 15, 2017

David Micklos of the DNA Learning Center, and Miriam Rich, a research scholar, talk about the big issues of eugenics.

Good genes, bad science

October 15, 2017

On this episode, Base Pairs looks into the eugenics movement, including the record kept in CSHL.

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

September 14, 2017

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

Realizing a dream: How a program for undergraduates placed me at the center of CRISPR research

August 16, 2017

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.

Library of CRISPR targeting sequences increases power and accuracy of the gene-editing method

July 20, 2017

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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