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How plants leave behind their parents’ genomic baggage

5/20/2021

A baby plant resets its genome, erasing the changes that its parents accumulated. CSHL scientists found how the plant adds back a few necessary ones. Read the story »

Patricia Churchland: Social Conscience

11/24/2020

Patricia Churchland, founder of the field of neurophilosophy, discusses research on the origins of human morality and social bonding. Watch the video »

LIVE At the Lab with Patricia Churchland: Social Conscience

11/24/2020

Scientist and philosopher Patricia Churchland discusses the evolutionary basis of morality and social bonding in humans. Read the story »

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Birds of a feather do flock together

11/17/2020

Researchers found a genetic mechanism for how brand new species acquire distinct traits. Read the story »

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Predicting the evolution of genetic mutations

4/14/2020

CSHL quantitative biologists have designed a computational approach for predicting the evolution of a rapidly mutating virus or cancer. Read the story »

Saket Navlakha taps the power of biology and computers

12/17/2019

Associate Professor Saket Navlakha is bringing ideas about “algorithms in nature” to the Simons Center for Quantitative Biology. Read the story »

Research profile: Adam Siepel

11/12/2019

Adam Siepel, Chair of the Simons Center for Quantitative Biology, uses advanced computational methods to solve complex biological questions. Read the story »

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How a lab and its model animals changed science

8/13/2019

The natural history of science at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory through the lens of animal research. Read the story »

Seeing with sequencing—A public lecture with three CSHL experts

4/19/2019

Quantitative biologists discuss how physics, modern computing power, and a new perspective on biology can make sense of our complex genomes. Watch the video »

How does natural selection affect the genome?

12/18/2018

Adam Siepel explains how natural selection can tell researchers how informative sifting through the complex human genome will be. Watch the video »

How much are we learning? Natural selection is science’s best critic

12/17/2018

Researchers determine that natural selection and our evolutionary history may be the best guides for future research. Read the story »

Evolving sets of gene regulators explain some of our differences from other primates

1/29/2018

What makes us different from our primate relatives? Gene regulation is one important evolutionary factor Read the story »

Study suggests methylation and gene sequence co-evolve in human-chimp evolutionary divergence

9/15/2011

High-resolution comparison of methylation ‘bookmarks’ across species and individuals. Read the story »

CSHL team helps Neanderthal Genome Project identify differences between Neanderthals and modern humans

5/6/2010

Only 83 Neandertal proteins are found to differ from human proteins. Read the story »

Alternative pathway of microRNA generation is uncovered

4/28/2010

A unique class of proteins called Argonautes help microRNAs control gene expression in organisms ranging from bacteria all the way up to humans. Read the story »