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One experiment: Observing cancer’s progress in a mouse prostate

March 14, 2019

Using a technique originally designed for mapping brains, two CSHL labs have worked together to image cancer progression in a mouse prostate.

One experiment: Building a brain

August 16, 2018

A genetic program precisely guides development of a part of the brain

One experiment: Twice the tomatoes

March 22, 2018

Zachary Lippman’s team found a way to boost tomato yield by digging into the plant’s genome and fine-tuning its branching patterns.

One experiment: When cancer is hiding in plain sight

March 1, 2018

Douglas Fearon's team is figuring out how to get immune cells to recognize—and kill—pancreatic cancer cells

One experiment: A beautiful brain, neuron by neuron

November 22, 2017

Associate Professor Pavel Osten and colleagues discovered using their qBrain method is discerned by probing hidden relations among the dots.

One experiment: Bacteria-trapping DNA webs are repurposed by cancer cells

October 19, 2017

Associate Professor Mikala Egeblad discovers that neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs) help cancer by creating holes in the tissue.

One experiment: A drug for SMA visibly repairs defective cells

December 1, 2016

Professor Adrian Krainer develops a treatment for spinal muscular atrophy, the leading genetic cause of infant death.

One experiment: How the breast “remembers” a first pregnancy

July 2, 2016

Professor Greg Hannon and his team, including Assistant Professor Camila dos Santos, learn more about breast cells and tissue.

One experiment: Cellular highways carry anti-cancer cargoes

April 9, 2015

The gene called PTEN is one of the most important of the body’s natural tumor suppressors.

One experiment: McClintock’s historic discovery

December 1, 2014

Four decades after this photo was taken, a Nobel Prize was awarded to McClintock, acknowledging her discovery that genetic material is not fixed

One experiment: Sometimes our cells express only one gene copy. Why?

June 1, 2014

Professor David L. Spector and team discover some monoallelically expressed genes encoded extra RNA, even though they are missing their other gene.

One experiment: Capturing a drug in its binding pocket

June 1, 2013

Erkan Karakas, a post-doc in Hiro Furukawa's lab, finds an elusive binding pocket that could help in the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases.

One experiment: When anti-cancer drug meets tumor

April 5, 2013

Studying cancer in its natural environment provides insights scientists can’t obtain when they look at cancer cells isolated in culture dishes

One experiment: What can scientists learn from an odd-looking mutant ear of corn?

February 3, 2013

A mutated gene called COMPACT PLANT2 (CT2) renders this fruit of the maize plant flattened in shape, a phenomenon called fasciation.

One experiment: A journey to human biology’s final frontier, the brain

December 1, 2012

Professor Partha Mitra and team work on the first brain circuit map of a mouse's brain to identify circuit alterations in neurological disorders.

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