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CSHL Stories and Media archive for Tag: CRISPR

At the Lab: Science for lovers

4/15/2025

You can’t spell evolution without l-o-v-e. A tale of passion and curiosity takes us from New York to Australia, France, the U.K., and South America. Listen to the podcast »

CRISPR manipulates plants’ flower powers

2/19/2025

CSHL Professor Zachary Lippman and postdoc Amy Lanctot have discovered how similar fragments of DNA control flowering in distantly related plants. Read the story »

Flipping cancer’s off switch

11/7/2024

CSHL Professor Christopher Vakoc and postdoc Olaf Klingbeil have found a potential drug target for some of the most common and deadly cancers. Read the story »

CSHL grad student wins International Birnstiel Award

9/23/2024

Shushan Toneyan won the award for her thesis research in CSHL’s Koo lab. Toneyan is the co-creator of CREME, an AI-powered virtual laboratory. Read the story »

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Is CREME AI’s answer to CRISPR?

9/16/2024

CREME, the latest AI toolkit from CSHL, is a virtual laboratory that may help scientists find new therapeutic targets in the genome. Read the story »

At the Lab Episode 23: Cured with CRISPR

9/10/2024

Victoria Gray, the first person ever cured of sickle cell, appeared on a DNA Learning Center panel featuring a clinical scientist from CSHL. Listen to the podcast »

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The promise of genetics to cure disease

9/5/2024

Victoria Gray was the first person cured of sickle cell disease with CRISPR gene-editing technology. Today, she shares her story. Watch the video »

At the Lab Episode 22: Outmuscling cancer

9/3/2024

After 10 years, CSHL has made a breakthrough in the study of RMS, a rare pediatric cancer. How we got here is a story of innovation and perseverance. Listen to the podcast »

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One Experiment: The devil in the greenhouse

8/15/2024

CSHL’s meanest plant may help the Lippman lab tame prickly indigenous crops like Australia’s desert raisin. Read the story »

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Every rose has its thorns … or does it?

8/1/2024

CSHL biologists have found a way to remove prickles from plants genetically. Their discovery could change the way we think about evolution in general. Read the story »

How to stop cancer cachexia? Start at the top

7/8/2024

Professor Bo Li and a team of collaborators from four CSHL labs have discovered a new potential drug target for the lethal wasting disease. Read the story »

CSHL to host first person cured of sickle cell

6/28/2024

Join us July 13 at 1 p.m. for “Students Talk Science” with Victoria Gray, the first patient treated using CRISPR gene-editing technology. Read the story »

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Meet Xenopus, the African clawed frog

6/6/2024

Many popular technologies used in biology and medicine have froggy origins, and this CSHL course has helped keep the field hopping. Read the story »

An evolutionary mystery 125 million years in the making

3/4/2024

CSHL plant biologists have stumbled on a peculiar case involving a gene that’s key for controlling growth in tomatoes and other crops. Read the story »

You say genome editing, I say natural mutation

10/19/2023

CSHL scientists have discovered that evolution and genome editing in crops are less predictable than previously thought. Read the story »

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