How does anyone stay healthy in a world full of germs? 1/15/2021 Computational biology is uncovering the immune system’s tricks for identifying foreign invaders. Read the story »
Mice with too many chandelier cells lack depth perception 12/8/2020 Chandelier cells should decrease in number as animals develop. Mice with too many cells lack depth perception. Watch the video »
Problems with depth perception caused by too many cells 12/7/2020 Chandelier cells should decrease in number as animals develop. If too many remain, brain systems may not work properly. Read the story »
How to figure out what you don’t know 11/30/2020 Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Assistant Professor Tatiana Engel discusses how a model like Ptolemy’s seems to explain the world and yet is wrong. Watch the video »
Birds of a feather do flock together 11/17/2020 Researchers found a genetic mechanism for how brand new species acquire distinct traits. Read the story »
How to figure out what you don’t know 10/26/2020 Sometimes, what seems like a good way to understand the world turns out to be wrong. A new machine learning tool lets scientists find better answers. Read the story »
How to tune out common odors and focus on important ones 5/11/2020 The fly brain uses a simple computing trick to ignore prevalent odors and focus on newer but rarer odorants. Read the story »
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 »
A science career path: David McCandlish 4/10/2020 Assistant Professor David McCandlish is a quantitative biologist who walks the line between advanced mathematics and the life sciences at CSHL. Read the story »
COVID-19 machine learning effort: Preprints are key 3/25/2020 Preprint papers play a key role in a U.S. government-led machine learning effort to understand the COVID-19 pandemic. Read the story »
Tatiana Engel named 2020 Sloan Fellow 2/12/2020 Assistant Professor Tatiana Engel is named a 2020 Sloan Fellow for her work on computational models of decision-making. Read the story »
What Google could learn from a fruit fly 1/21/2020 By tapping into life’s algorithms, scientists are finding elegant solutions to some of the hardest problems in computer science. Read the story »
The non-human living inside of you 1/9/2020 A large part of human DNA doesn’t aid the normal workings of the body. This “junk DNA” contains ancient viruses that may spur diseases like ALS. Read the story »
Finally, machine learning interprets gene regulation clearly 12/26/2019 Machine learning and a new kind of easily-interpretable artificial neural network is helping scientists make sense of crucial gene regulation. 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 »
