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Of mice and model organisms

July 31, 2019

An in-depth look at how veterinarians at CSHL help take care of the various organisms that help researchers answer fundamental biological questions.

There’s more to smell than meets the nose

July 22, 2019

Neuroscience researchers work to figure out our brains process smells, including what features are essential to identifying and separating odors.

Quantifying how the brain smells

July 22, 2019

Neuroscience researchers at CSHL are trying to figure out how the brain processes smells and what features of odors are important in that process.

NIH grant awarded for interneuron research

April 4, 2019

CSHL postdoc Maggie Crow will use her NIH grant to pursue the quantification and analysis of specific types of neurons in the brain.

Hannah Meyer joins CSHL Quantitative Biology faculty

March 26, 2019

Hannah Meyer is the newest Quantitative Biology Fellow at CSHL, studying how our immune system learns to identify and fight pathogens.

Genetic ‘usual suspects’ identified in researchers’ new list

March 4, 2019

An exhaustive ranked list of “usual suspect” genes involved in disease may prove invaluable for future research and drug discovery.

David McCandlish named Sloan Research Fellow

February 19, 2019

Assistant Professor David McCandlish has been named a 2019 Sloan Research Fellow for his promising work in the field of quantitative biology.

How does math help us understand the brain?

January 31, 2019

An exploration of how computational neuroscientist Tatiana Engel uses math to understand how the brain makes decisions.

Molly Hammell wins CZI award for ALS study

December 5, 2018

Associate Professor Molly Hammell wins award for proposed study to find transposable elements that are implicated in ALS.

The big problem of small data: A new approach

October 18, 2018

You’ve heard of “big data” but what about small? Researches have crafted a modern approach that could solve a decades-old problem in statistics.

Portrait of a Neuroscience Powerhouse

April 27, 2018

A relatively small neuroscience group at CSHL is having an outsized impact on a dynamic and highly competitive field

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

January 29, 2018

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

New method can more precisely determine when a cell has ‘cashed’ RNA ‘checks’ written by active genes

January 26, 2018

CSHL scientists have designed software that enables biologists to determine with unprecedented accuracy how much protein a given cell is making.

First cell-type census of mouse brains: surprises about structure, male-female differences

October 5, 2017

A multiyear project in the Brain Initiative, qBrain is already revealing the brain as never before.

Neuron types in the brain are defined by gene activity that shapes their communication patterns

September 21, 2017

Neurons are defined by determining which cells they connect with and how they communicate across synapses

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