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No Two Plants

Caroline Cosgrove — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 12:30:06 +0000

No Two Plants was made as part of the 2024 Symbiosis initiative presented at the Science New Wave Festival XVII and supported by the Simons Foundation." data-description="" />Every year on February 11, we celebrate International Day of Women and Girls in Science, honoring women and girls’ contributions to a field long dominated by men. Among these trailblazers is Nobel laureate Barbara McClintock, whose groundbreaking work at ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) reshaped our understanding of genetics. For the filmmaking competition Symbiosis, CSHL...

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Jorge Family Foundation donates $1 million to CSHL

Communications Department — Mon, 23 Dec 2024 12:30:56 +0000

Evelyn and Arlindo Jorge believed in philanthropy. The couple wanted to instill in their young family a commitment to giving back. So, every year around the holidays, they asked each of their grandchildren to submit a “proposal” to support something important to them. As a young girl, Stephanie Gibbons suggested her grandparents fund graphing calculators...

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CSHL’s oldest haunts

Nick Wurm — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 11:30:24 +0000

ave you ever opened a door and felt like you were stepping back in time? It may come as a surprise to those who’ve never been here before, but ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) is not one lab or building. Over 50 CSHL facilities stand along the hilly shores overlooking Long Island’s Cold Spring Harbor....

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Science Meets Art at CSHL

Communications Department — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 16:00:59 +0000

In a way, viewing cells under a microscope is a lot like looking at a painting. At first glance, you see the shapes, patterns, and colors. When you zoom in, you start to see all of the little details like nuclei and ribosomes, or in the context of painting, brush strokes and blends. Gaze at...

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Barbara McClintock’s corn

Nick Wurm — Sun, 16 Jun 2024 11:30:14 +0000

ou may have heard the story behind Barbara McClintock’s 1983 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. In case you haven’t, here it is in a corn husk. McClintock earned the prestigious award for her discovery of transposons, or jumping genes. These molecules “jump” around plant and animal genomes, turning genes on and off. They’re part...

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From plant genomics to a bioscience revolution

Jen A. Miller — Mon, 25 Mar 2024 11:30:22 +0000

Arabidopsis thaliana, rice, and corn. But these breakthroughs aren’t just about plants. They’ve changed the way scientists think about all life on Earth. AI-generated image: © LadyAI - stock.adobe.com" data-description="" />Farmers have been playing with plant genomics since before the world knew what genes were. Does one strawberry plant produce sweeter fruits? Encourage its growth over less tasty crops. Voilà! Your strawberry crop is now yummier than ever. Since the turn of the 21st century, ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) breakthroughs have helped revolutionize the...

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CSHL celebrates 50th anniversary of McClintock Laboratory

Nick Wurm — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 17:00:06 +0000

Barbara McClintock’s career at ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) revolutionized genetics research. At CSHL’s “Animal House,” her groundbreaking experiments with corn led to the discovery of transposons, or “jumping genes” in 1944. Fifty years ago, at its 1973 Symposium, CSHL renamed the building in McClintock’s honor. Ten years later, in 1983, Barbara McClintock became the...

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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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The secret history of corn is revealed in its genome

Luis Sandoval — Thu, 05 Aug 2021 18:00:39 +0000

Humans adapt through language and culture, passing down knowledge from one generation to the next. Corn plants can’t talk, so they solve the problem of adaptability in a different way: they use “jumping genes” to shuffle the genetic deck over generations. Jumping genes—now called transposons—were discovered by Nobel Prize-winning ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) geneticist...

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Carol Greider: Nobel Prize-winning rogue biologist

Brian Stallard — Tue, 31 Mar 2020 18:50:11 +0000

Dr. Carol Greider proudly calls herself a “rogue scientist.” That iconoclastic approach led to her Nobel Prize-winning work on telomeres, and to becoming a champion for women in science. “You can do whatever you want, but you have to like whatever you do.” That’s what Carolyn “Carol” Greider’s father told her when she was growing...

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Barbara McClintock: Free to discover

Brian Stallard — Mon, 23 Mar 2020 15:31:33 +0000

Barbara McClintock missed an important call on the morning of October 10, 1983. She had chosen “to be free” of the interruptions that came with owning a telephone, and so it was her students and colleagues who told her that she had received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. “That’s nice,” she said with...

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The non-human living inside of you

Communications Department — Thu, 09 Jan 2020 20:00:21 +0000

« Previous Story Next Story » Half of your genome started out as an infection; if left unchecked, some parts of it can turn deadly all over again. The human genome contains billions of pieces of information and around 22,000 genes, but not all of it is, strictly speaking, human. Eight percent of our DNA...

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Nobel Prize day quiz

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

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Historic building—groundbreaking science

Brian Stallard — Tue, 29 Oct 2019 14:48:10 +0000

��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) is unique among cutting-edge research campuses. Along the waterside, you’ll find quaint cottages looking unchanged from their nineteenth-century whaling town origins. Deeper into these grounds, cottages are eclipsed by the red brick facades and sweeping arches that housed some of science’s first forays into genetics in the early 1900s. Deeper...

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Leading discovery

Communications Department — Mon, 20 May 2019 13:00:09 +0000

This spring, I was pleasantly surprised by the news that I would be honored with the 2019 Canada Gairdner International Award, together with John Diffley, for our research on eukaryotic cell DNA replication. The Gairdner Foundation’s announcement describes our work: By describing the exact sequence of events involved in DNA replication, Stillman and Diffley have...

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An essay from the President: Biology for the planet

Communications Department — Thu, 16 May 2019 16:17:34 +0000

As we advance toward the middle of the twenty-first century, humanity faces an existential challenge: figuring out how to feed the world’s rapidly growing population in the face of climate change and the increasingly limited availability of key nutrients and suitable land for farming. We need solutions that are local, national and global to increase...

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Rob Martienssen special talk: Barbara McClintock’s Controlling Elements, Then and Now

Communications Department — Fri, 25 Jan 2019 21:00:16 +0000

Rob Martienssen’s special lecture on Barbara McClintock’s ‘Controlling Elements, Then and Now.’ In the 1940s Barbara McClintock famously discovered transposable elements, sometimes called jumping genes, for which she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1983. But she called them “controlling elements” and devoted much of her career to the regulation of...

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CSHL’s Rob Martienssen honored with prestigious Barbara McClintock Prize

Peter Tarr — Fri, 19 Jan 2018 20:46:03 +0000

Cold Spring Harbor, NY — Rob Martienssen, Professor, HHMI Investigator, and Head of Genomics and Plant Genetics at ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) has received the 2018 Barbara McClintock Prize for Plant Genetics and Genome Studies. The award and medal will be conferred during a ceremony in Saint-Malo, France, on March 24th, as part of...

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Science and architecture: Back to the future!

Andrea Alfano — Thu, 20 Jul 2017 15:22:57 +0000

3D images are a throwback to the past as CSHL and Centerbrook Architects rediscover a 1950s building that has been occupied by some of the Laboratory’s most notable scientists. s advancements in 3D visualization push the boundaries of virtual and augmented realities, you can imagine our surprise at Centerbrook Architects when longtime client Cold Spring...

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Dark matter of the genome, part 1

Andrea Alfano — Wed, 15 Mar 2017 20:05:25 +0000

Base Pairs podcast Could “genome” be a misnomer? The name implies that our genetic information is mainly genes, yet when the Human Genome Project was completed in 2003, it revealed that genes comprise a tiny minority. About 98 percent of the genome is something else—a kind of genomic dark matter. We’re kicking off the second...

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