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CSHL neuroscientist named a Searle Scholar

Eliene Augenbraun — Mon, 23 May 2022 11:30:28 +0000

��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) Assistant Professor Arkarup Banerjee was named a 2022 Searle Scholar to pursue his work on neural circuits for flexible vocal communication. “Given the importance of language in human society, a better understanding of the neural mechanisms of mammalian vocal communication would be extremely valuable,” said Banerjee. The Searle Scholars Program...

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CSHL in pursuit of shape-shifting antibiotics

Eliene Augenbraun — Mon, 25 Apr 2022 16:00:14 +0000

��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) Professor John E. Moses and Research Investigator Joshua Homer were awarded more than $325,000 by New York State to develop a new type of antibiotic that can treat bacteria that have become drug-resistant. New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced the award and over $15 million worth of research awards as...

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Books, t-shirts, and more at the CSHL bookstore

Eliene Augenbraun — Wed, 06 Apr 2022 11:30:25 +0000

The ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) Bookstore, located in the basement of Grace Auditorium, first opened on campus in 1992. Its first manager, Connie Hallaran, has shepherded the store through several iterations, including its first four years operating under CSHL Press and five years as a campus bookstore run by Barnes & Noble. Hallaran still...

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How a world on pause sparked educational innovation at CSHL

Eliene Augenbraun — Mon, 04 Apr 2022 11:30:14 +0000

��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) educational programs provided a lifeline to scientists, teachers, and students during the pandemic. In February 2020 the DNA Learning Center switched from live to virtual experiences, creating 286 new videos that were viewed over 3.7 million times, and attracted nearly 19,000 new subscribers to the DNALC Live YouTube channel. They...

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Two years of COVID-19 related research at CSHL

Eliene Augenbraun — Fri, 11 Mar 2022 21:00:35 +0000

��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) contributed to the first two years of the scientific community’s response to COVID-19 with many publications, some of which reached a very large audience. The Laboratory’s most-read COVID-19 research stories The Laboratory’s research stories reach millions of readers via our website, social platforms, and the multiplier effect of many media...

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Deciphering algorithms used by ants and the Internet

Eliene Augenbraun — Wed, 02 Mar 2022 00:01:49 +0000

Engineers sometimes turn to nature for inspiration. ��ϳԹ��Դ Associate Professor Saket Navlakha and research scientist Jonathan Suen found that adjustment algorithms—the same feedback control process by which the Internet optimizes data traffic—are used by several natural systems to sense and stabilize behavior, including ant colonies, cells, and neurons. Internet engineers route data...

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Finding structure in the brain’s static

Eliene Augenbraun — Tue, 01 Feb 2022 12:30:44 +0000

While sleeping, the entire brain rolls through long, slow waves of electrical activity, like waves on a calm ocean. Researchers call that state of consciousness “slow wave sleep”. Waking up changes the pattern of electrical activity into something that looks more like random noise. But ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) Assistant Professor Tatiana Engel, Postdoctoral...

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Creating a community for hope

Eliene Augenbraun — Tue, 30 Nov 2021 14:00:08 +0000

Sarcoma is a rare and deadly cancer born of bones, muscles, or connective tissue. Striking children and young adults, it was studied by only a handful of disconnected researchers. But that changed in 2014, when the ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) Cancer Center launched its Sarcoma Initiative. The Laboratory helped organize the field, develop a...

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CSHL is repairing and restoring historic seawall

Eliene Augenbraun — Tue, 29 Jun 2021 17:00:57 +0000

In June 2021 ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) began work on repairing and restoring Cold Spring Harbor’s seawall. The seawall was built in 1850, and over the last century, it has been damaged by storms, especially Hurricane Sandy in 2012. The stone wall has been breached several times and has become structurally unstable in recent...

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NCI Cancer Centers endorse HPV and COVID-19 vaccinations

Eliene Augenbraun — Fri, 21 May 2021 14:00:48 +0000

The ��ϳԹ��Դ Cancer Center joins other National Cancer Institute (NCI) Cancer Centers in strongly encouraging parents to get their adolescents the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination as soon as possible. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia recently authorized COVID-19 vaccination for 12- to 15-year-old children. The CDC allowed...

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CSHL professor weighs in: Are CRISPR plants GMOs?

Eliene Augenbraun — Mon, 15 Mar 2021 12:30:19 +0000

The Nobel Prize-winning gene editing tool CRISPR/Cas9 is revolutionizing agriculture and adding a new dimension to the policy debate over how governments classify GMOs (genetically modified organisms). In a break from the European Union, which historically has tightly regulated genetically modified foods, the UK government has proposed regulating CRISPR crops far less stringently than previous...

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Profile: Rebecca Leshan

Eliene Augenbraun — Wed, 11 Nov 2020 17:00:18 +0000

When Rebecca Leshan got her Ph.D. in Molecular and Integrative Physiology from the University of Michigan in 2009, she had no idea that she would one day lead a think tank. She was headed for several years of postdoctoral fellowships working on how the brain controls hunger. She then spent a couple years working for...

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Replicating a genome starts with a twist, a pinch, and a bit of a dance

Eliene Augenbraun — Wed, 16 Sep 2020 12:00:35 +0000

The most basic activity of a living thing is to turn one copy of its genome into two copies, crafting one cell into two. That replication event begins with a set of proteins—the Origin Recognition Complex (ORC). And, with some cancers and developmental diseases linked to ORC proteins, structural biologists need to see how the...

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Applying symptom tracking to COVID-19 outpatient care using famotidine

Eliene Augenbraun — Thu, 04 Jun 2020 22:30:56 +0000

A patient-reported symptom tracking method used for patients with cancer has now been adapted for patients with COVID-19. Investigating the effect of famotidine, a potential treatment for COVID-19, on non-hospitalized patients with COVID-19, clinicians at Northwell Health and cancer researchers at ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) developed the method to use in addition to laboratory...

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Coronavirus research in plants

Eliene Augenbraun — Fri, 15 May 2020 15:21:51 +0000

When ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) was asked to help produce critically needed reagents (coronavirus proteins) for COVID-19 research, the Lab’s plant biologists came up with a plan: Let’s produce the requested proteins cheaply, quickly, and in large quantities, in tobacco and duckweed. CSHL Professor David Jackson said that for the plant researchers, it all...

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Dog adaptations are like brain adaptations

Eliene Augenbraun — Wed, 06 May 2020 15:00:32 +0000

Group Of Various Kind Of Purebred Dogs Photos by Pond5" data-description="Illustration of a couple dozen different breeds of dogs" />Autism can sometimes be inherited, but exactly how is complicated. CSHL Professor Michael Wigler defied the field’s common wisdom in the mid-2000s to figure out some of the genetics underlying autism. It turns out that dogs can help explain Wigler’s approach. In a video call conducted March 20, 2020, Wigler mused about how remarkable it...

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Speed sharing of COVID-19 research results

Eliene Augenbraun — Fri, 27 Mar 2020 21:24:45 +0000

During a pandemic, speedy research saves lives. Fortunately, the research community is facing the COVID-19 pandemic with new research tools—��ϳԹ��Դ’s two preprint servers, bioRxiv and medRxiv. Preprint servers are platforms to deposit scientific papers “as is,” before review by scientific peers. This is in contrast to “peer-reviewed” research journals, like Science or...

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COVID-19 machine learning effort: Preprints are key

Eliene Augenbraun — Wed, 25 Mar 2020 20:58:59 +0000

��ϳԹ��Դ’s preprint servers bioRxiv and medRxiv are critical components in a newly announced US government-led project, COVID-19 Open Research Dataset (CORD-19), created in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The plan is to create a machine-readable database of research papers that can be mined with semantic search strategies and other AI techniques for...

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Why your kid can explain the COVID-19 test

Eliene Augenbraun — Thu, 19 Mar 2020 19:43:20 +0000

Over 670,000 high school students learned hands on genetics at the DNA Learning Center; in 2019, 67,550 used PCR, the technology at the heart of COVID-19 testing. Here is a chance to catch up with what those students know. The ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) DNA Learning Center (DNALC) has taught over 670,000 students and...

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