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CSHL Stories and Media archive for Tag: Hiro Furukawa

The CSHL School of Biological Sciences’ class of 2025

5/5/2025

The School of Biological Sciences awarded Ph.D. degrees to nine students this year. Read some of their stories and reflections on their time at CSHL. Read the story »

At the Lab: Dancing with fire

4/29/2025

What happens to our brain receptors’ “dance routines” when the brain comes under immune system attack? Tune in to find out. Listen to the podcast »

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Deciphering brain diseases with click chemistry

2/18/2025

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Professors John Moses and Hiro Furukawa speak at the CSHL Association’s 2025 Annual Meeting. Watch the video »

Ketamine: From club drug to antidepressant?

2/14/2025

CSHL Professor Hiro Furukawa proves the existence of a mysterious brain receptor known as GluN1-2B-2D and shows how it may interact with ketamine. Read the story »

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2024 Double Helix Medal recipients Alisa & Daniel Doctoroff

12/3/2024

The Doctoroffs lead Target ALS, an innovative nonprofit that has sparked dramatic progress in research on Lou Gehrig’s disease. Watch the video »

image of Anti-NMDAR encephalitis antibodies

Putting out a brain on fire

10/17/2024

CSHL Professor Hiro Furukawa sheds new light on anti-NMDAR encephalitis, a rare autoimmune disorder that may be misdiagnosed as schizophrenia. Read the story »

At the Lab Season 1 Research Rewind: Neuroscience

10/15/2024

What do you think? How do you know? And who are you anyway? We probe each of these questions with the help of Cold Spring Harbor’s neuroscientists. Listen to the podcast »

This protein does “The Twist”

7/31/2024

CSHL Professor Hiro Furukawa has figured out how the NMDAR performs a key step in the brain’s cognitive dance. Read the story »

Hazen Tower

4/25/2024

The Italian-style bell tower anchors CSHL’s Neuroscience Center. Its bell has rung out every hour on the hour, from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., since 1991. Read the story »

At the Lab Episode 2: Molecular puppetry

4/9/2024

CSHL neuroscientist Hiro Furukawa shows us a part of the brain that actually works like a puppet master. What could this mean for mental health? Listen to the podcast »

Cryo-electron microscopy image of a human CALHM1 channel

This eight-armed octopus-like pore perceives taste

7/14/2023

CSHL captures never-before-seen images of the human CALHM1 channel, a mysterious cellular passageway that may be connected to Alzheimer’s disease. Read the story »

A new look at brain function and psychiatric disorders

11/2/2022

CSHL scientists’ new 3D models of NMDA brain receptor variants could lead to better treatments for schizophrenia, stroke, depression, and Alzheimer’s. Read the story »

Mapping brain disorder therapeutics at work

7/29/2022

Dive into the 3D atomic structure of the NMDA receptor, important in several brain disorders, and see how it interacts with drugs that inhibit it. Watch the video »

Mapping out new routes to treat brain disorders

6/10/2022

CSHL scientists explore new angles to improve brain disorder therapies with 3D maps of the NMDA receptor, a key player in Alzheimer's and epilepsy. Read the story »

Picky proteins: A new angle for brain disorder therapeutics

5/20/2022

Researchers have designed an antibody that may help treat brain disorders. See how it prevents neurons from malfunctioning. Watch the video »

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