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very hour on the hour, from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., a bell tolls at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL). Whether you’re enjoying a walking tour, attending a Symposium, admiring some campus art, or j...

https://www.cshl.edu/harborscope/hazen-tower/

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 nav...

https://www.cshl.edu/david-klindt-joins-cshl-neuroai-team/

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) Professor and Cancer Center Director David Tuveson has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is one of 250 new members elected to the ...

https://www.cshl.edu/tuveson-elected-to-american-academy-of-arts-sciences/

Travel back in time to any year in Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) Meetings & Courses history. You’d find yourself rubbing elbows with Nobel laureates, groundbreaking researchers, and prom...

https://www.cshl.edu/environmental-sciences-cold-spring-harbor-origin/

Seeing is believing. But why and how do these perceptions occur? A new addition to the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) research roster will help answer these critical questions. CSHL is exci...

https://www.cshl.edu/mitra-javadzadeh-joins-cshl-neuroscience-faculty/

Pharmaceutical companies need to make drugs quickly. They need to produce chemical compounds in large amounts. And they need these compounds to have as few harmful side effects as possible. But i...

https://www.cshl.edu/nobel-laureate-honored-at-cshl-chemistry-symposium/

When it comes to biology, details matter. If a drug isn’t designed to perfectly hit its target, down to a single atom, it may utterly fail. That’s where structural biologists come in. Cold Sp...

https://www.cshl.edu/up-close-and-personal-with-cryo-em/

Plant biology and science education are in Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory’s (CSHL’s) DNA. Recently, two CSHL plant scientists brought their expertise from the lab to the White House lawn for a...

https://www.cshl.edu/cshl-goes-to-the-white-house-for-easter-eggucation/

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) chemists have created a new collection of molecular compounds and begun testing them as potential leads in the search for new drugs. Among these molecules, th...

https://www.cshl.edu/click-click-boom-150-new-molecules/

Climate change threatens crops across the globe. But the problem goes far beyond rising temperatures. One major cause for concern is more acidic soil, a product of increasing rainfall. This can r...

https://www.cshl.edu/cshls-thomas-gingeras-awarded-2-million-nsf-grant/

old Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) is home to one of the country’s oldest science labs—and we can thank the whales for that. Over 130 years ago, John D. Jones donated land formerly occupied ...

https://www.cshl.edu/harborscope/inside-jones-laboratory/

Is this a scene straight out of the latest Star Trek? No, think much more down-to-earth. What we’re seeing here isn’t the Starship Enterprise on fire in the void. It’s a cross-section of pr...

https://www.cshl.edu/one-experiment-pancreatic-mucus/

Farmers have been playing with plant genomics since before the world knew what genes were. Does one strawberry plant produce sweeter fruits? Encourage its growth over less tasty crops. Voilà! Yo...

https://www.cshl.edu/from-plant-genomics-to-a-bioscience-revolution/

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Associate Professor and Cancer Center member Tobias Janowitz led a COVID-19 clinical trial with Northwell Health in 2021. When he and Clinical Fellow Hassal Lee revi...

https://www.cshl.edu/better-cancer-trials-could-be-around-the-corner/

It’s the most common single-gene neurological disorder in the world. It is typically diagnosed in children. It’s often accompanied by learning challenges. It can lead to tumors in the brain, ...

https://www.cshl.edu/new-hope-in-the-fight-against-neurofibromatosis/

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 anoth...

https://www.cshl.edu/a-call-for-support-of-trans-scientists/

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...

https://www.cshl.edu/alien-language-cshl-returns-to-cinema-arts-centre/

You’ve heard the phrase, “Men are from Mars, women are from Venus.” If only it were so simple. The fact is that all of us are from Earth. Yet, there are clear physical and neurological diff...

https://www.cshl.edu/women-in-science-on-womens-health/

Spinal muscular atrophy, or SMA, is the leading genetic cause of infant death. Less than a decade ago, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) Professor Adrian Krainer showed this brutal disease can...

https://www.cshl.edu/why-some-rna-drugs-work-better-than-others/

Plant genomics has come a long way since Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) helped sequence the first plant genome. But engineering the perfect crop is still, in many ways, a game of chance. Ma...

https://www.cshl.edu/an-evolutionary-mystery-125-million-years-in-the-making/

Knowing exactly what’s inside a tumor can maximize our ability to fight cancer. But that knowledge doesn’t come easy. Tumors are clusters of constantly changing cancer cells. Some become comm...

https://www.cshl.edu/pancreatic-cancer-lives-on-mucus/

Stress is inevitable. But too much of it can be terrible for our health. Chronic stress can increase our risk for heart disease and strokes. It may also help cancer spread. How this works has rem...

https://www.cshl.edu/chronic-stress-spreads-cancer-heres-how/

piraling down from a skylit ceiling, “Twisting Dendrites” is the artistic focal point of CSHL’s Marks building. The blown-glass chandelier was crafted by American artist Dale Chihuly. Its n...

https://www.cshl.edu/harborscope/twisting-dendrites/

Our immune system is remarkably powerful. It quickly assembles teams of cells to eliminate threats inside our bodies. But sometimes, it hits the wrong target. Autoimmune diseases like lupus and m...

https://www.cshl.edu/the-immune-systems-moonlighters/

Scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) and the University of California, Davis have reached a new breakthrough in pancreatic cancer research—eight years in the making. It could help...

https://www.cshl.edu/pancreatic-cancer-hijacks-a-brain-building-protein/

Remember the first time you snapped two LEGO pieces into place? What about finishing your first LEGO set? Remember that feeling of accomplishment, of everything fitting in its right place? What i...

https://www.cshl.edu/genome-sequencing-for-kids-one-lego-at-a-time/

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) is excited to highlight the revival of Aboff’s Paints Breast Cancer Awareness Campaign in 2023. After a decade-long hiatus, Aboff’s Paints excitedly campa...

https://www.cshl.edu/giving-news/aboffs-paints-raises-over-40000-for-cshls-breast-cancer-research/

Major scientific breakthroughs are often dismissed as “novel” discoveries. This is especially true in fundamental biology. It’s hard to fathom the importance of something if its real-world ...

https://www.cshl.edu/from-novel-discovery-to-anti-aging-therapy/

“Laboratory research is one of the best tools we have to help improve the lives of children with cancer. Support from families who’ve lost someone and groups like the Christina Renna Foundati...

https://www.cshl.edu/angels-wish-raises-45k-for-cshl-cancer-research/

Each year, some 2,000 students around the country enter the Regeneron Science Talent Search. And each year, just a few hundred of these high school seniors are named a top 300 scholar. These teen...

https://www.cshl.edu/cshl-pff-student-named-regeneron-scholar/