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Pancakes may never taste this good again

Communications Department — Thu, 15 May 2025 11:30:25 +0000

round seven years ago, I was a super eager undergraduate student studying biochemistry and starting my very first research internship at the Spanish Center for Biotechnology. I did not know much about how cancer worked, how it arises, or what makes it grow. All I knew was that I wanted to make an impact. I...

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Lessons of the past, leaders of tomorrow

Emma Courtney — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 11:30:31 +0000

BRCA1, the first gene associated with hereditary breast cancer." data-description="" />From March 26–29, 2025, ��ϳԹ��Դ’s Center for Humanities & History of Modern Biology, in collaboration with the CSHL Meetings & Courses Program, hosted Cancer Genetics: History & Consequences. The extraordinary international gathering brought together the field’s pioneers with today’s leading innovators and future trailblazers. Over four days, attendees were immersed in a...

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Cancer Genetics: History & Consequences

Communications Department — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 11:30:04 +0000

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Ludmila Pollock named AAAS Fellow

Nick Wurm — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 14:00:52 +0000

��ϳԹ��Դ’s (CSHL’s) Ludmila Pollock has been named a 2024 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). She is recognized for her efforts to promote the history and philosophy of science. Pollock has been head of the CSHL Library & Archives since 1999. In 2008, she founded CSHL’s History...

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Toasting serendipity

Communications Department — Wed, 22 Nov 2017 02:45:43 +0000

Four decades ago, scientists made a discovery that “completely transformed all of biology,” according to Nobelist James Watson. Two leaders of the research had spent their early years at CSHL. In 1977, Phillip Sharp (then at MIT) and Richard Roberts (at CSHL) independently discovered RNA splicing. The game-changer was the realization that information encoded in...