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Exposomics: Holistic health without the snake oil

6/12/2025

After gathering at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory’s Banbury Center, the field’s leading minds issue a rallying cry heard across biology and medicine. Read the story »

At the Lab: The nuclear speckle option

5/6/2025

Speckles sound innocent enough, like little spots. But don’t be fooled. These tiny structures could someday have big implications for cancer care. Listen to the podcast »

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Cocktails & Chromosomes: The hidden world inside our cells

3/20/2025

What are nuclear speckles and how might these mysterious structures impact your DNA? Get an inside look from CSHL Assistant Professor Kate Alexander. Watch the video »

‘Is cancer immunotherapy right for me?’

1/21/2025

It’s a question that only you and your doctor can answer. Research from CSHL’s Peter Westcott may explain why it does or doesn’t work in some cases. Watch the video »

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A speckle of hope for cancer patients

1/2/2025

Research from new CSHL Assistant Professor Katherine Alexander suggests that nuclear speckles could influence kidney cancer patient outcomes. Read the story »

At the Lab Episode 5: A heart of golf

4/30/2024

A 500-year-old mystery stumbled on by Leonardo da Vinci has been solved using modern clinical data. Meet the CSHL scientist at the heart of it all. Listen to the podcast »

In cancer immunotherapy, more isn’t necessarily better

9/14/2023

CSHL Assistant Professor Peter Westcott may have discovered why immunotherapy often fails in certain colon cancer treatments. Read the story »

A full-circle moment in cancer research

8/16/2023

High-tech experiments by CSHL Postdoctoral Researcher Asad Lakhani and colleagues allow us to see early 20th-century hypotheses in a whole new light. Watch the video »

Photo of Asad Lakhani in the Flow Cytometry Core Facility

Genome hack reignites century-old cancer debate

8/14/2023

ReDACT, a new genome-editing technique invented at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, could bring cancer research full circle. Read the story »

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Targeting cancer’s Achilles heel

11/4/2022

Biden’s Cancer Moonshot aims to cut annual deaths in half. CSHL scientists have the goal in their sights. Read the story »

Understanding the inner workings of the human heart

8/19/2020

Scientists show that muscular structures first described by Leonardo da Vinci are essential for heart function. Read the story »

graphic of large Neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs)

How an antiviral immune reaction can go too far

5/23/2020

White blood cells sacrifice themselves to ensnare invaders in a sticky NET (neutrophil extracellular trap), but in COVID-19, NETs may hurt us. Read the story »

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Coronavirus research in plants

5/15/2020

Purified coronavirus proteins are in short supply for COVID-19 researchers, so CSHL plant scientists are jumping in to make them. Read the story »

Seeking better treatment for ALS, Lou Gehrig’s disease

10/29/2019

Researchers found that ‘jumping genes’ were de-silenced in post-mortem tissue samples of ALS patients. Read the story »

Tuveson pancreatic immunofluorescence CA19-9

Sugars that coat proteins are a possible drug target for pancreatitis

6/20/2019

CA19-9, a complex sugar structure coating proteins, represents a possible drug target for treatment of pancreatitis and prevention of pancreatic cancer. Read the story »

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