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Krainer included in Forbes’ Most Successful Immigrants list

Samuel Diamond — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 11:30:19 +0000

��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) Professor Adrian Krainer has been included in Forbes’ list of America’s Most Successful Immigrants. The magazine recognized Krainer for research that “led to the development of Spinraza, the first FDA-approved medicine for spinal muscular atrophy,” and for co-founding biotech company Stoke Therapeutics. After growing up in Uruguay, Krainer came to...

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Hannah Meyer selected as Rita Allen Foundation Scholar

Samuel Diamond — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 15:04:24 +0000

��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) Assistant Professor Hannah Meyer has been named a Rita Allen Foundation Scholar. The scholarship provides her lab with $100,000 annually for five years for cutting-edge research on the immune system. Specifically, the Meyer lab focuses on an often-overlooked organ called the thymus. This small gland is known to play a...

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AI goes biological at 90th CSHL Symposium

Samuel Diamond — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 16:00:42 +0000

One computer scientist introduced the virtual patient, a “digital twin” capable of modeling different cancer treatments and their potential outcomes. Another used AI to predict how viruses like COVID might mutate, so that vaccines can be prepared in advance. A third suggested drug development steps that normally take three years could be completed in as...

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David Jackson elected Fellow of the Royal Society

Samuel Diamond — Wed, 27 May 2026 09:00:18 +0000

��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) Professor David Jackson has been elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society. Having the letters FRS (Fellow of the Royal Society) tacked onto the end of one’s name is among the very highest honors a scientist can achieve. It’s a mark of elite distinction. Other Fellows of the Royal...

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Dehydration’s role in learning and memory

Samuel Diamond — Mon, 18 May 2026 11:30:10 +0000

How do we learn to remember? At the most fundamental level, it’s all about chemicals and electricity. Beyond their roles in diet and nutrition, calcium and magnesium work as ions, or charged particles, in the brain. Magnesium can block a channel found within brain receptors known as NMDARs. When the blockade lifts, calcium can pass...

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Say Cheese3D: A new model for tracking facial expression

Samuel Diamond — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 09:00:05 +0000

Nature Neuroscience, Kyle Daruwalla, Irene Nozal Martin, and colleagues at ��ϳԹ��Դ introduce a computer vision system called Cheese3D. As senior author Helen Hou puts it, “Cheese3D turns the face into a window into the brain.” Image: Kyra Wang" data-description="A pencil drawing of three bats in different poses, overlaid with blue perspective grid lines." />Love, pain, joy, fear, desire: the full spectrum of emotion resides in facial expression. We grasp this almost intuitively. However, we still lack a quantifiable understanding of the nuanced relationship between the face and the brain. We haven’t yet found a way to precisely measure and reliably interpret the full complexity of facial expressions in...

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Immune response to cancer may cause brain disease

Samuel Diamond — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 16:00:01 +0000

Consider two seemingly unrelated medical puzzles. First: Every day, our bodies produce hundreds of billions of new cells, many of which are mutated. If cancer arises from cellular mutation, why don’t we all have the disease all the time? Second: Severe autoimmune conditions like lupus and multiple sclerosis often strike without warning. No one knows...

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Secrets of evolution found in ancient plant DNA

Samuel Diamond — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 18:00:13 +0000

You’ve heard of deep space, but what about deep time? Today’s geneticists and evolutionary biologists can extend their investigations further back in time than ever imagined. Still, many mysteries remain. One has vexed biologists for decades. In both plants and animals, gene sequences and functions are often conserved across species over hundreds of millions of...

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AI, monkey brains, and the virtue of small thinking

Samuel Diamond — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 16:00:30 +0000

What does it take to make AI that can pass as human? Try massive clusters of supercomputers. To build human-like intelligence, computer scientists think big. However, for neuroscientists who want to understand how real brains work, today’s AI only goes so far, as it replaces one deeply complicated system (the brain) with another (AI). How...

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Douglas Fearon elected as Fellow of AACR Academy

Samuel Diamond — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 15:30:54 +0000

Former ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) Professor Douglas Fearon has been elected as a Fellow of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Academy. He is recognized for championing research that helped link innate and adaptive immunity. Fundamental biology studies by Fearon and his colleagues significantly enhanced science’s understanding of the human immune system, thereby...

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Singing mice speak volumes

Samuel Diamond — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 15:00:25 +0000

All mice squeak, but only some sing. Scotinomys teguina, aka Alston’s singing mice, hail from the cloud forests of Costa Rica. More than 2,000 miles north, ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) neuroscientists study these musically gifted mammals to better understand the evolutionary origins of vocal communication. Their research could also tell us something about strokes,...

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Joshua-Tor joins American Academy of Sciences and Letters

Samuel Diamond — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 12:38:22 +0000

��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) Director of Research Leemor Joshua-Tor has been inducted to the American Academy of Sciences and Letters. The W.M. Keck Professor of Structural Biology and HHMI investigator was honored for her fundamental biology research during a ceremony at the historic Decatur House museum, one of the oldest homes in Washington, D.C....

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Borniger reaches Cancer Grand Challenges finals

Samuel Diamond — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 09:00:41 +0000

��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) Assistant Professor Jeremy Borniger has been selected for the final stages of a Cancer Grand Challenges research initiative as part of team NEUROIMPACT. The team seeks to determine how the nervous system senses and responds to cancers. In identifying the nervous system’s role in tumor growth and cancer metastasis, they...

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Worldwide collaboration, brain-wide technology

Samuel Diamond — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 11:30:59 +0000

What if we could map how behaviors play out across the entire brain at the level of single cells? What if, using that data, we could measure how prior knowledge affects decision-making? As featured on CNN, two new studies from the International Brain Laboratory (IBL) suggest it’s no longer a question of “if” but “when.”...

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Patient insights inspire discovery

Samuel Diamond — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 15:00:17 +0000

“My body is all used up, and I have no will left to live.” Those are the first words of a new essay written by ��ϳԹ��Դ Associate Professor Tobias Janowitz. They’re the words of his late mother during the final days of her life. “A perceptive woman who survived a childhood shaped...

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Branching out: Tomato genes point to new medicines

Samuel Diamond — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 15:00:49 +0000

Picture juicy red tomatoes on the vine. What do you see? Some tomato varieties have straight vines. Others are branched. The question is why. New research from ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) provides the strongest evidence to date that the answer lies in what are called cryptic mutations. The findings have implications for agriculture and...

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Exposomics: Holistic health without the snake oil

Samuel Diamond — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 11:30:27 +0000

We live in the age of -omics. We have genomics to study complete sets of DNA. We have proteomics focused on all the proteins within our cells. And we have metabolomics for metabolites like sugars and lipids. Despite their massive reach and intense focus, these fields have blind spots. They’re both in the margins and...

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A CSHL Symposium for the ages

Samuel Diamond — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 11:30:05 +0000

You are not the same person you were a decade ago. Most of your body’s cells are replaced every seven to 10 years. Nevertheless, you retain the genes and memories that help make you, you. Science still doesn’t fully understand how the aging process works. But we’re getting closer, and the answers may hold the...

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In nature’s math, freedoms are fundamental

Samuel Diamond — Wed, 28 May 2025 11:30:07 +0000

Numbers have a funny way about them. Young math students are taught various strategies to make problem-solving easier. Comparing fractions? Find a common denominator or convert to decimals. The strategies get more complex when doing the kind of math used to describe the activities of DNA, RNA, or protein sequences. In science, when you make...

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CSHL to honor Chris Evert, Martina Navratilova & Bob Langer

Samuel Diamond — Mon, 12 May 2025 17:21:22 +0000

When there’s this much courage and innovation in one space, you can almost feel it in the air. It’s an understanding, a sense that everyone here shares the same mission: to improve people’s lives and help make the world a better place. Imagine the possibilities. On November 19, ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) will host...

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