CSHL breaks ground on new Neuroscience Research Complex
Shovels pierced soil, declaring the dawn of a new era at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL). On December 19, 2022, CSHL faculty and staff joined with state and local leaders for a groundbreaking...
View ArticleCSHL to receive $2 million in federal budget for 2023
Cancer is the cause of one in every four deaths in the United States. The later the diagnosis comes, the lower the patient’s chances of survival. Experts agree that next-generation artificial...
View ArticleOld-world charm meets real-time access
A tight-knit community of scientists and students is set to grow even more connected. This spring, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) will roll out a new Villager Trolley Bus at its 110-acre Long...
View ArticleKrainer named Society for RNA Therapeutics board member
If RNA therapeutics were once considered the future of medicine, that future is now. Studies suggest RNA-based treatments have saved tens of millions of lives over the past few years. Now, the newly...
View ArticleFrom Her to Here: CSHL talks AI at Cinema Arts Centre
What is love if not our most intimate form of communication? And if AI can master communication, can it also know love? Questions like these take center-stage next month at an event that brings...
View ArticleLingbo Zhang wins National Institutes of Health MERIT Award
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) Assistant Professor Lingbo Zhang has received the National Cancer Institute (NCI) MERIT Award. NCI is a division of the National Institutes of Health. Short for...
View ArticleCSHL’s Cocktails & Chromosomes series returns this summer
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory’s (CSHL’s) Cocktails & Chromosomes series is back for the first time since 2019. This fun and free event series brings together CSHL scientists and the public for...
View ArticleCSHL launches PREP program for recent college graduates
“Science knows no country because knowledge belongs to humanity.” Louis Pasteur spoke those words nearly 150 years ago. It’s a beautiful idea. But more than a century later, science still fails to live...
View ArticleGenome sequencing goes mobile at DNALC
Once, sequencing the human genome was considered a far-off monument of scientific achievement. The Human Genome Project, which got its start at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL), was the work of...
View ArticleCSHL Concert Series returns to Grace Auditorium
Music is everywhere in nature and the life sciences, not just birdsongs. Alston’s brown or singing mice exhibit wide-ranging vocals. There’s even a natural rhythm to life’s development, as evident in...
View ArticleVakoc receives Excellence in Healthcare Award
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) Professor Christopher Vakoc has received an Excellence in Healthcare Award from the Long Island Herald. The award recognizes his lab’s recent advances in pediatric...
View ArticleJoshua-Tor named CSHL Director of Research
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) Professor and HHMI Investigator Leemor Joshua-Tor has been named CSHL Director of Research. She takes over the position effective January 2, 2024. Research at CSHL...
View ArticleAlien language: CSHL returns to Cinema Arts Centre
What if an alien spaceship were to touch down in your front yard tomorrow? How would you communicate with your unexpected guests? How would anyone for that matter? Now, consider the prospect that any...
View ArticleA call for support of trans scientists
Ever heard of the jelly bean experiment? A researcher filled a jar with jelly beans. He then asked a student how many were in the jar. Then he repeated the question with another student and another...
View ArticleDavid Klindt joins CSHL neuroAI team
The world around us is constantly changing. And with it, so too do the sights we encounter at any given moment. Yet we instantly adapt to the differences. How do we keep up? How do our brains navigate...
View ArticleDNA Day at DNA Learning Center NYC
DNA is the great uniter. It’s in all of us. Because genetics is so fundamental to our lives, genetics education should be available to everyone. That’s the founding principle of Cold Spring Harbor...
View ArticleGovernor Hochul announces $15 million for CSHL expansion
This year, more than 66,000 people in the U.S. will be diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. That includes about 3,600 New Yorkers. Here on Long Island, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) has already...
View ArticleNew AI accurately predicts fly behavior
We’ve been told, “The eyes are the window to the soul.” Well, windows work two ways. Our eyes are also our windows to the world. What we see and how we see it help determine how we move through the...
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