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.
CRISPR vs. climate change June 15, 2017 This episode of Base Pairs looks at the issues climate change may bring to agriculture and how CRISPR can help overcome them.
What a real-life science test looks like March 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
Gene editing yields tomatoes that flower and ripen weeks earlier December 5, 2016 Researchers use CRISPR to expand the geographical range of important food crops.
