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Learn about the cool campus artwork at CSHL

Charlotte Hu — Mon, 15 May 2023 11:30:39 +0000

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Science of love quiz

Charlotte Hu — Fri, 14 Feb 2020 14:00:47 +0000

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DNA Learning Center takes New York

Charlotte Hu — Thu, 12 Dec 2019 14:00:51 +0000

��ϳԹ��Դ’s DNA Learning Center (DNALC), the world’s first science center devoted entirely to public genetics education, is expanding its hands-on laboratory programs in the greater New York area with two new state-of-the-art teaching facilities. The latest DNALC outshoots are at biotech company Regeneron Pharmaceuticals’ Sleepy Hollow headquarters and the Brooklyn-based New York...

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Nobel Prize day quiz

Charlotte Hu — Tue, 10 Dec 2019 14:00:38 +0000

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Milestone reached in new leukemia drug

Charlotte Hu — Tue, 19 Nov 2019 14:26:12 +0000

��ϳԹ��Դ scientists, with chemists and cancer biologists from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI), have developed a new therapy that extended the survival of mice with acute myeloid leukemia. The scientists are the first to demonstrate the anti-cancer effect of blocking the Salt-Inducible Kinase 3 (SIK3) pathway in leukemia using YKL-05-099, a drug developed...

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The difference between an expert’s brain and a novice’s

Charlotte Hu — Mon, 18 Nov 2019 16:00:01 +0000

When mice learn to do a new task, their brain activities change over time as they advance from ‘novice’ to ‘expert.’ The changes are reflected in the wiring of cell circuits and activities of neurons. Using a two-photon imaging microscope and a wealth of genetic tools, researchers from ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL), Columbia University,...

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Scientists take action to prevent sexual harassment and bias

Charlotte Hu — Thu, 07 Nov 2019 19:00:45 +0000

A diverse group of scientists gathered last December at the Banbury Center in Cold Spring Harbor, NY, to confront how institutions and funding agencies can prevent sexual harassment and gender bias in the STEM workforce. The conclusions from the meeting are highlighted in a new paper published in Science, which included 23 authors from a...

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Researchers double sorghum grain number to improve food supply

Charlotte Hu — Wed, 30 Oct 2019 20:35:31 +0000

Plant scientists at ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) and USDA’s Agricultural Research Service (ARS), in their search for solutions to global food production challenges, have doubled the amount of grains that a sorghum plant can produce. Sorghum, one of the world’s most important sources of food, animal feed, and biofuel, is considered a model crop...

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The important role of an Uplands Farm cat

Charlotte Hu — Tue, 29 Oct 2019 21:39:02 +0000

inding around wide fields of yellowing maize stalks and sorghum grains, the road into ��ϳԹ��Դ’s Uplands Farm stretches past a small collection of buildings. One house holds the plant scientists’ most precious treasures: seeds. A small cat stands guard outside the door, sitting with her eyes half-closed on the sun-soaked grass. “This...

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Nobel laureate William Kaelin draws a crowd

Charlotte Hu — Tue, 29 Oct 2019 15:17:18 +0000

cientists and students packed Grace Auditorium at ��ϳԹ��Դ on October 17, filling almost every seat to hear the latest in cancer research from William Kaelin, who just 10 days before was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Kaelin, a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute,...

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Seeking better treatment for ALS, Lou Gehrig’s disease

Charlotte Hu — Tue, 29 Oct 2019 15:00:59 +0000

There is currently no cure for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). But new research could open up avenues for better diagnosis and more effective treatment. The study, led by ��ϳԹ��Դ Associate Professor Molly Gale Hammell, analyzed the role proteins called TDP-43 play in ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. In ALS, those...

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One experiment: The shape of norovirus

Charlotte Hu — Fri, 25 Oct 2019 20:51:36 +0000

Viruses encapsulate their genetic cargo in a shell of proteins. These shells can form in various shapes and sizes. The shapes of the virus shells are important for developing vaccines against future viral infections. They provide target outlines of the virus for the immune system, which then creates a type of protein called antibodies that...

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BARseq builds a better brain map

Charlotte Hu — Thu, 17 Oct 2019 15:00:53 +0000

��ϳԹ��Դ Professor Anthony Zador has taken the next step in his quest to solve exactly how the brain is wired. Zador, a neuroscientist whose lab studies how the brain’s circuitry mediates and controls complex behaviors, set out about 10 years ago to map three pillars of brain function: connectivity, gene expression and...

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New brain research could change how concussions are treated

Charlotte Hu — Mon, 14 Oct 2019 00:00:30 +0000

Traumatic brain injuries (TBI), including concussions, can be caused by anything from sports injuries to battlefield trauma. And they can have fatal or lasting effects. The results of a severe concussion—problems with thinking, memory, movement, emotions—are clear. The causes, or underlying pathological mechanisms, were not. A new study questions the ongoing hypothesis that the blunt...

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Coffee day quiz

Charlotte Hu — Fri, 27 Sep 2019 13:00:57 +0000

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Mice, like humans, fidget when deep in thought

Charlotte Hu — Tue, 24 Sep 2019 15:00:53 +0000

Almost everyone fidgets, said ��ϳԹ��Դ Associate Professor Anne Churchland. She referred to a collage of videos she compiled of different people rocking back and forth in their chairs, clicking a pen, shaking their legs. “This is a collection of uninstructed movements,” she explained. “These are all people who were thinking and talking,...

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Peter Koo wants to understand how machines learn biology

Charlotte Hu — Fri, 20 Sep 2019 13:00:59 +0000

The science world is sitting at the cusp of an artificial intelligence revolution that impacts applications such as speech recognition and computer vision. Peter Koo is on the front line of those changes. As ��ϳԹ��Դ’s new Assistant Professor at the Simons Center for Quantitative Biology, Koo will explore how AI integrates with...

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Quiz gone viral

Charlotte Hu — Fri, 20 Sep 2019 13:00:24 +0000

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The world of Brianna Bibel, The Bumbling Biochemist

Charlotte Hu — Tue, 17 Sep 2019 20:29:37 +0000

hen Alexandra Newton first opened an Instagram account for the International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, she typed “biochemistry” on the search bar to see what others were posting. That’s when she entered the world of Brianna Bibel, a third-year graduate student at the Watson School of Biological Sciences who’s better known across social...

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Overcoming resistance in pancreatic cancer

Charlotte Hu — Mon, 09 Sep 2019 15:00:50 +0000

Cold Spring Harbor, NY — Cancer is relentless and resilient. When a drug blocks a cancer cell’s main survival pathway, the cell avoids the obstacle by taking different pathways or detours to save itself. This tactic is called “developing resistance,” and it’s one of the key challenges researchers face when seeking effective therapeutics to combat...

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