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Mapping out new routes to treat brain disorders

Daniel Dunaief — Fri, 10 Jun 2022 14:00:01 +0000

��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) Professor Hiro Furukawa takes an architectural approach to brain research. He creates structural 3D maps of important proteins that malfunction in brain disorders. Furukawa has zeroed in on a protein called the NMDA (for N-methyl-D-aspartate) receptor that plays a key role in learning and memory. The NMDA receptor acts as...

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Building better AI with the power of neuroscience

Daniel Dunaief — Wed, 08 Jun 2022 11:30:33 +0000

Artificial intelligence (AI) has come a long way. It enables cars to park themselves, phones to transcribe voice messages, and navigation programs to find the fastest route. And yet, these programs still lack the flexibility, creativity, and dynamic responses of the people who create them. A team of neuroscientists at ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL),...

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Knowing what it’s like to be the only one in the room

Daniel Dunaief — Fri, 13 May 2022 11:30:07 +0000

eet Charla Lambert, advocating for all voices in science. She isn’t just a champion of diversity at ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL)—she’s a living example. From Alaskan native heritage in the Haida and Tsimshian tribes on her mother’s side and of Cajun descent from southern Louisiana on her father’s, Charla Lambert, Ph.D., the inaugural head...

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Paving a path to triple-negative breast cancer treatment

Daniel Dunaief — Tue, 29 Mar 2022 12:00:24 +0000

It’s the cancer version of “mini me.” ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) Professor David Spector, among others, has developed organoids, which are miniature, three-dimensional copies of cancers. Organoids can be derived from cancer or healthy cells. They allow scientists to study the basic biology of particular types of tumors, then to test specific drugs on...

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Cutting off liver cancer’s nutrient supply chain

Daniel Dunaief — Thu, 03 Feb 2022 12:30:11 +0000

The World Health Organization projects that starting in 2030, over a million people will die each year from liver cancer. ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) Professor Adrian Krainer, former postdoc Wai Kit Ma, and Dillon Voss, a Stony Brook University M.D.-Ph.D. student-in-residence in Krainer’s lab, have come up with a way to interfere with the...

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Editing RNA to fix protein problems in cystic fibrosis

Daniel Dunaief — Thu, 27 Jan 2022 12:30:09 +0000

The process of generating proteins from genes is akin to a factory, where workers follow a set of instructions that, ideally, are effective and clear. But for some people who suffer from cystic fibrosis (CF), one of their genes has a mutation that results in confusing instructions for making the protein CFTR. The mutation inserts...

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DNA Learning Center Nigeria opens to local students

Daniel Dunaief — Fri, 16 Oct 2020 16:45:13 +0000

��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) welcomes Nigeria’s new DNA Learning Center (DNALC) at Godfrey Okoye University (GOU) to its network of 20 DNALC sites and franchises around the world. DNALCs educate teachers and students about DNA technologies important for understanding our shared human inheritance, monitoring biodiversity, and improving crops. GOU’s new DNALC is the first...

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A science career path: Jason Williams

Daniel Dunaief — Fri, 24 Apr 2020 13:00:50 +0000

He is now a leader at the DNA Learning Center, the place that taught him to love biology in high school. ason Williams started out on the other side of the lab bench. While attending Half Hollow Hills High School, Williams was a student at the ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) DNA Learning Center (DNALC),...

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Profile: Doreen Ware champions the plant genome

Daniel Dunaief — Wed, 08 May 2019 18:00:58 +0000

Plants can’t run away from predators or adapt their behaviors at a moment’s notice. Instead, they adapt, survive, and thrive through changes to their genes, where the tools to battle viruses, fungi, infection, or adverse environmental conditions reside. The plant genome, champion of its own survival, has been the focus of Doreen Ware’s career. An...

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