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‘Nature’s algorithm’ found in Chinese money plants

Nick Wurm — Tue, 12 May 2026 09:00:55 +0000

Look up at the clouds. What do you see? A sailboat? A seahorse? Your great-aunt Rosemary? As humans, we’re prone to seeing patterns where they don’t actually exist. This behavior is so common there’s a name for it: apophenia. But sometimes, those patterns really do exist. ��ϳԹ��Դ Associate Professor Saket Navlakha specializes...

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A Closer Look: CSHL’s Microscopy Core

Communications Department — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 11:30:28 +0000

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New mass spec innovation could transform research

Nick Wurm — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 17:00:39 +0000

Weight says a lot. In the kitchen, it could mean cooking with too little or too much of an ingredient. For scientists, a molecule’s weight can help determine its makeup. This, in turn, can shed light on whether a potential drug is acting on the body or not working at all. Weight can even reveal...

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Her science could help you live healthier, longer

Margaret Osborne — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 12:30:51 +0000

When Corina Amor Vegas was just 7 years old, her mother, Esperanza, was diagnosed with breast cancer. Esperanza’s treatment would take over a decade. However, after participating in a clinical trial for a new cancer drug, she entered remission. Today, Amor Vegas is happy to say her mother is doing “very well.” The clinical trial...

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Licensed to live

Jennifer Michalowski — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 11:30:21 +0000

The DNA packed inside every human cell contains instructions for life, written in billions of letters of genetic code. Every time a cell divides, the complete code, divided among 46 chromosomes, must be faithfully copied. This staggering task happens over and over with extraordinary precision. Decades of research have revealed how dozens of proteins work...

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Cocktails & Chromosomes: A place of community and betrayal

Communications Department — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 11:30:55 +0000

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The Adenovirus Gazebo

Nick Wurm — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 11:30:03 +0000

When the weather’s right, you can find any number of ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) students, faculty, and staff around the gazebo on Bungtown Road. The spot’s popularity is undoubtedly owed to its excellent view of the harbor. But crowning the gazebo is an homage to something arguably just as important to CSHL as its...

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Stem Cells to the Rescue by Helen Blau and Margery Fain

Katherine Kelly — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 20:29:13 +0000

When your skin is cut, it heals. When you break a bone, it mends. How does this happen? Because your body is made of cells, including a very special kind called stem cells. They live in many places in your body, such as skin, muscles, bones, and blood. And when any part of your body...

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Meet Xenopus, the African clawed frog

Luis Sandoval — Thu, 06 Jun 2024 11:30:41 +0000

Xenopus course at CSHL pose with the star of the course, the African clawed frog. Left to right: Rachel Miller, Peter Walentek, Lance Davidson, and Chenbei Chang." data-description="" />Sometimes, groundbreaking biomedical discoveries and technology can come from the strangest sources. A perfect example: Xenopus, the African clawed frog. It swims upside down. It’s see-through. And it makes an ideal test subject for studying genes that may cause or help cure diseases in humans. This year, scientists from around the globe once again descended...

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Pancreatic cancer lives on mucus

Luis Sandoval — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 12:30:22 +0000

Knowing exactly what’s inside a tumor can maximize our ability to fight cancer. But that knowledge doesn’t come easy. Tumors are clusters of constantly changing cancer cells. Some become common cancer variants. Others morph into deadlier, drug-resistant varieties. No one truly understands what governs this chaotic behavior. Now, ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) Professor David...

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The immune system’s moonlighters

Luis Sandoval — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 12:30:43 +0000

Our immune system is remarkably powerful. It quickly assembles teams of cells to eliminate threats inside our bodies. But sometimes, it hits the wrong target. Autoimmune diseases like lupus and multiple sclerosis result from friendly fire—immune cells attacking healthy tissues and organs by mistake. New treatments and therapeutic targets are direly needed for these conditions....

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From cancer genetics to cancer treatments

Jen A. Miller — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 12:30:49 +0000

What is cancer? How does it develop and spread? And how do we stop it? Thanks to science, today’s doctors can better answer all of these questions. That’s not because of one eureka moment. Instead, it’s the result of thousands of discoveries that built upon each other. Case in point: two of the most important...

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CSHL holds first-ever cell reprogramming conference

Luis Sandoval — Thu, 02 Nov 2023 11:30:41 +0000

Almost 20 years ago, neuroscientist Magdalena Götz attempted the impossible: creating brand-new neurons in the brain. The mouse brain to be exact. Her approach? She’d convert brain cells known as glial cells into neurons. Götz was a pioneer in changing cells from one type to another. Now, she has helped launch the first-ever conference on...

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Once rhabdomyosarcoma, now muscle

Luis Sandoval — Mon, 28 Aug 2023 19:00:00 +0000

“Every successful medicine has its origin story. And research like this is the soil from which new drugs are born,” says ��ϳԹ��Դ Professor Christopher Vakoc. For six years, Vakoc’s lab has been on a mission to transform sarcoma cells into regularly functioning tissue cells. Sarcomas are cancers that form in connective tissues...

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Where did our DNA come from?

Nick Wurm — Tue, 22 Aug 2023 11:30:21 +0000

About half of the human genome isn’t quite human. It’s made up of transposable elements (TEs)—descendants of ancient viruses. As a Ph.D. student at the Max-Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Andrea Schorn studied an ancient TE that was resurrected from fish and is active in pretty much all vertebrates—except fish. Today, Schorn is an assistant...

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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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Stopping a rare childhood cancer in its tracks

Jennifer Michalowski — Thu, 19 Jan 2023 16:00:35 +0000

Scientists at ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) have discovered a new drug target for Ewing sarcoma, a rare kind of cancer usually diagnosed in children and young adults. Their experiments show that the cells causing this cancer can essentially be reprogrammed with the flick of a genetic switch. Shutting down a single protein forces the...

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Getting tough on tuft cell lung cancer

Jennifer Michalowski — Wed, 22 Jun 2022 11:30:56 +0000

��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) Professor Christopher Vakoc’s team discovered in 2018 a new type of small-cell lung cancer. The cancer originates from cells known as tuft cells. The prognosis for tuft cell lung cancer is extremely poor. Now, the Vakoc team has discovered how tuft cells are generated in the body. Disrupting tuft cell...

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Decoding how a protein on the move keeps cells healthy

Nick Wurm — Tue, 31 May 2022 12:00:07 +0000

Cells produce proteins like little factories. But if they make too much at the wrong times it can lead to diseases like cancer, so they control production with a process called RNA interference (RNAi). As of July 2021, several drugs already take advantage of RNAi to treat painful kidney and liver diseases—with another seven in...

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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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