CSHL Stories and Media archive for Tag: evolutionary biology

At the Lab: AI evolves

5/20/2025

CSHL neuroscientists discuss the biological brain’s multibillion-year advantage over AI—and the new algorithm they built based on that concept. Listen to the podcast »

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 »

CSHL and global collaborators map Solanum pan-genome

3/5/2025

Landmark study carves a path for plant breeders to improve crops across the globe and expand the variety of produce available in grocery stores. Read the story »

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 »

Corn’s ancient ancestors are calling

2/6/2025

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Professors Thomas Gingeras and Rob Martienssen have launched a new genomic encyclopedia called MaizeCODE. Read the story »

The next evolution of AI begins with ours

11/25/2024

How do innate abilities get passed down? Cold Spring Harbor neuroscientists have devised a solution that could lead to faster artificial intelligence. Read the story »

At the Lab Episode 25: How maize became corn

9/24/2024

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory solves a plant biology mystery some 4,000 years in the making. The implications may go far beyond vegetables. Listen to the podcast »

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 »

Corn’s ‘missing link’

8/7/2024

CSHL researchers have discovered a biological mechanism that may explain how corn spread so rapidly across the Americas 4,000 years ago. Read the story »

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 »

At the Lab Episode 16: Bats!

7/23/2024

Shriek if you must. Their remarkable genome might provide new insights into natural links between the immune system, aging, and cancer resistance. Listen to the podcast »

At the Lab Episode 8: Birds of a feather

5/21/2024

How did some birds get such distinct colors? CSHL Professor Adam Siepel joins us for a journey across evolution’s “islands of differentiation.” Listen to the podcast »

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 »

A quiz for the ages

Want to know the secret to a long life? So do CSHL scientists. Take this short quiz to see what they’ve found out about aging and longevity. Take the quiz »

Holy immunity! Bat genes key against COVID, cancer

10/16/2023

Rapid evolution has streamlined bats’ immune systems. This may explain why they’re resistant to cancer and viruses like Ebola or COVID-19. Read the story »