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Obscure protein is spotlighted in fight against leukemia

Jasmine Lee — Tue, 11 Jan 2022 16:00:10 +0000

Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is an aggressive cancer of white blood cells with few effective targeted therapies available to treat it. ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) Professor Christopher Vakoc and former graduate student Sofya Polyanskaya found that AML cells rely on a previously little-known protein called SCP4 for survival. Their discovery points to a potential...

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Corina Amor joins CSHL faculty

Jasmine Lee — Fri, 07 Jan 2022 12:30:27 +0000

��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) is pleased to welcome Corina Amor to the faculty as a CSHL fellow. Amor’s current work is focused on senescent (aging) cells. As senescent cells accumulate, they can lead to age-related diseases like cancer. She studies how aging cells are able to evade the immune system and what kinds of...

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Test your brain

Jasmine Lee — Tue, 04 Jan 2022 16:00:44 +0000

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Open access: The pathway to successful collaborations

Jasmine Lee — Thu, 30 Dec 2021 14:00:14 +0000

The birth and evolution of open access data banks” Before the age of modern cloud computing and the Internet, collecting and distributing scientific data was a challenging task. Researchers from different countries had their own ways of cataloging their findings. Computers were rare, expensive, and inaccessible. The ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) June 1971 symposium,...

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See, snap, send—enter the DNALC photo contest

Jasmine Lee — Wed, 22 Dec 2021 13:30:26 +0000

��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) opened its newest DNA Learning Center in Brooklyn (DNALC NYC) and is hosting a photography contest to fill a gallery with the faces of diverse New Yorkers. The exhibit, titled All The World in NYC, aims to highlight a hopeful message of genetics in our lives and celebrate the many...

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In breast cancer, the best defense is a strong offense

Jasmine Lee — Tue, 07 Dec 2021 16:00:31 +0000

Your immune system is constantly patrolling your body to keep you healthy. Sometimes, immune cells are also called into action to address a potential problem. ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) Associate Professor Camila dos Santos’ lab discovered that after pregnancy, breast cells call in immune system reinforcements called Natural Killer T (NKT) cells to prevent...

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In the Field: A Barbara McClintock–inspired novel

Jasmine Lee — Thu, 02 Dec 2021 14:00:23 +0000

In the Field, a fictional novel based on the life of Nobel Prize–winning scientist Barbara McClintock. The Nobelist spent most of her professional career at ��ϳԹ��Դ and its predecessor institution." data-description="" />In the early 1900s, there were few women working in the male-dominated research field. But a few notable women persevered despite the challenges. Barbara McClintock was a revolutionary cytogeneticist: in 1983, she was the first woman to win an unshared Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. She was recognized for her discovery of mobile genetic...

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Corn 2.0

Jasmine Lee — Mon, 29 Nov 2021 14:00:41 +0000

ow do you make better corn? Climate change is causing longer droughts, more intense heat, and unpredictable storms that drastically change local environments. At the same time, the human population is growing, increasing the demand for food that is cultivated on increasingly fragile lands. Crops that are biologically unprepared are at risk of being eradicated,...

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16th annual Double Helix Medals dinner raises $5M

Jasmine Lee — Thu, 18 Nov 2021 17:45:38 +0000

��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) hosted the 2021 Double Helix Medals dinner (DHMD) on November 17, 2021, raising a record $5 million to support biology research. After going virtual for the 2020 ceremony, guests of the sixteenth annual gala were excited to be back in person this year in New York City. Lesley Stahl, the...

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Fighting cancer is a rebalancing act

Jasmine Lee — Mon, 01 Nov 2021 15:30:48 +0000

hy do some cancers spread throughout the body? Cancer cells live in a complex neighborhood populated by immune cells, blood vessels, and other structures. Signals crisscross the neighborhood: cells tell each other who is there and what they want. Cancer cells may want to hide their identity or otherwise influence this neighborhood—or microenvironment—so they can...

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Exploiting cancer’s sweet tooth

Jasmine Lee — Mon, 25 Oct 2021 10:30:46 +0000

Inositol is a sugar required for cells to survive. Most cells either get it from the bloodstream or make it themselves. Since there is plenty of inositol available, some cancer cells decide to stop making it. ��ϳԹ��Դ Professor Christopher Vakoc and his lab discovered that acute myeloid leukemia (AML), an aggressive cancer...

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Masthead Cove Yacht Club supports CSHL research

Jasmine Lee — Wed, 20 Oct 2021 18:00:19 +0000

Each year, the Masthead Cove Yacht Club (MCYC) hosts an annual Masthead Race to raise funds for research at ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL). The Club raised $4,500 at its August 8, 2021 event in the Huntington Bay area. CSHL research investigator Jon Ipsaro and computational postdoc Olivia Mendivil Ramos addressed the race participants as...

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Mammalian motivation circuits: Maybe they’re born with it

Jasmine Lee — Mon, 18 Oct 2021 15:00:12 +0000

Are we born to fear punishment or crave rewards? Or do those capacities evolve with experience? ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) Professor Bo Li and his lab found that mice have pre-programmed circuits that process “positive” and “negative” stimuli. These neurons are found in the mouse’s amygdala, a section of the brain that deals with...

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Building on 150 years of neuroanatomy

Jasmine Lee — Thu, 07 Oct 2021 14:30:38 +0000

Learn about some of the milestones in neuroanatomy history with our interactive timeline, and read more about CSHL contributions in recent years. In 1873, an Italian biologist named Camillo Golgi stained nerve cells at high resolution. He thought neurons formed a branched and cohesive network and were not individual cells. Fifteen years later, Santiago Ramón...

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Think a census of humans is hard? Try counting their brain cells!

Jasmine Lee — Wed, 06 Oct 2021 15:00:02 +0000

Read about CSHL’s contributions to neuroanatomy in recent years, and learn more about related milestones in our interactive timeline. How does the human brain work? For the last 150 years, researchers have tried to assess its function from its structure, but the answer is still elusive. On October 7, 2021, scientists reached a major milestone,...

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CSHL researcher wins NIH Director’s Pioneer Award

Jasmine Lee — Tue, 05 Oct 2021 15:00:50 +0000

��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) Adjunct Professor Z. Josh Huang was awarded the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director’s Pioneer Award. The award supports scientists with highly innovative, “high-risk, high-reward” approaches to major challenges in biomedical, social science, and behavioral research. Huang was recognized for developing a new generation of precise cell engineering technologies to...

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CSHL receives 2021 NCI grant of $4.5 million

Jasmine Lee — Fri, 01 Oct 2021 11:00:53 +0000

The National Cancer Institute (NCI) renewed its grant to the ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) Cancer Center on September 15, 2021 with an award of $4.5 million. Currently led by CSHL Professor David Tuveson, the Cancer Center is committed to exploring the fundamental biology of human cancer. CSHL first received funding and formal National Cancer...

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Team P.E. Revival wins CSHL volleyball championship

Jasmine Lee — Wed, 29 Sep 2021 19:00:42 +0000

P.E. Revival, the winners of the 2021 summer volleyball championship league, receive the Tiernan Cup for their victory." data-description="" />The thirtieth ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) beach volleyball season championship game took place on September 20, 2021. Team P.E. Revival, led by CSHL Fellow Hannah Meyer took the championship title by winning a best two out of three series, earning the championship trophy and a year’s worth of bragging rights to go with it....

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Mestag, co-founded by CSHL prof, named leading new biotech

Jasmine Lee — Mon, 27 Sep 2021 12:30:48 +0000

Fierce Biotech named Mestag Therapeutics™, a start-up inflammatory disease and immuno-oncology company, as one of its 2021 “Fierce 15” biotechnology companies. Mestag was founded in 2020 by an international team of researchers including ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) Professor and Cancer Center Director David Tuveson. Mestag is developing new therapeutics for people affected by inflammatory...

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2021 Women’s Partnership luncheon raises $250,000

Jasmine Lee — Thu, 23 Sep 2021 20:30:51 +0000

On Sunday, September 19, 2021 ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) held its twentieth annual Women’s Partnership for Science lecture and luncheon at the Banbury Conference Center. The event, attended by almost 300 people, raised over $250,000 to support women scientists’ research at the Laboratory. The featured speaker, CSHL Assistant Professor Jessica Tollkuhn, spoke about estrogen’s...

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