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 »
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 »
Songbird study provides concrete way of measuring biology’s impact on culture, say CSHL, CCNY scientists 5/5/2009 Can birds raised in complete isolation evolve “normal” species song over generations? Read the story »
