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At the Lab Episode 26: The golden grail of genomics

Communications Department — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 11:30:21 +0000

First, there was the Human Genome Project. Then, there was ENCODE. CSHL Professor Thomas Gingeras recently spoke with Scientific American about the legacy of ENCODE. This week At the Lab, he talks about a new follow-up project called EN-TEx and its promise for the coming era of personalized medicine. Thank you for joining us for...

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Genome sequencing goes mobile at DNALC

Samuel Diamond — Thu, 31 Aug 2023 16:00:57 +0000

Once, sequencing the human genome was considered a far-off monument of scientific achievement. The Human Genome Project, which got its start at ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL), was the work of thousands of scientists across the globe. After more than a decade and $3 billion in costs, the first draft of the human genome sequence...

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Mummies, Neanderthals, and Nobel winner Svante Pääbo

Communications Department — Mon, 31 Jul 2023 11:30:46 +0000

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Genome analysis just got personal

Luis Sandoval — Thu, 30 Mar 2023 15:00:46 +0000

Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE) and the Genotype-Tissue Expressions (GTEx) project. Image: © ktsdesign – stock.adobe.com" data-description="" />Life on Earth comes in a beautiful assortment of different shapes, sizes, and colors, thanks to genetic mutations. Some mutations are beneficial, some are perilous, and some don’t do much of anything. Every person has around 4.5 million genetic variations. But are those variants helpful or hurtful? Geneticists have been trying to find the answer...

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Can cancer be treated by changing its cells?

Communications Department — Mon, 11 Apr 2022 11:30:50 +0000

In 2017, Karen Kostroff, a renowned oncology surgeon at Northwell Health in the New York Metropolitan area, added a new talking point to her standard conversation with breast cancer patients facing tumor removal surgery. These conversations are never easy, because a cancer diagnosis is devastating news. But the new topic seemed to give her patients...

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The complete human genome: A “book of life”

Jasmine Lee — Wed, 24 Feb 2021 16:00:28 +0000

The human genome has been referred to as the “book of life,” containing all the necessary instructions to build a human being. After years of bouncing around the idea of spelling out this “book,” a group of biologists met at the ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) Banbury Center in 1989 to devise a concrete plan...

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Making sense of the genome…at last

Communications Department — Fri, 06 Dec 2019 21:50:01 +0000

A couple years ago, the pioneering geneticist Craig Venter went viral by failing to appear in a video clip. The presenter of a TED talk—a biologist named Riccardo Sabbatini—welcomed Venter onto the stage to explain the staggering amount of information in the human genetic code. As people began to applaud, five assistants emerged from the...

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Base Pairs Episode 17: Genomes, justice, and the journey here

Sara Roncero-Menendez — Sat, 15 Sep 2018 15:04:47 +0000

Base Pairs podcast - A look at how gene-mapping works, what scientists can tell by looking at your genome, and what it means for your privacy.

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��ϳԹ��Դ celebrates its 15th commencement

Sara Roncero-Menendez — Tue, 01 May 2018 15:43:42 +0000

Cold Spring Harbor, NY — On Sunday, April 29, distinguished scientists joined proud friends and family at the 15th commencement ceremony of the Watson School of Biological Sciences (WSBS) at ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL). Five outstanding young scientists were awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. The distinguished academics Dr. David Botstein and Dr....

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Who (else) was at Banbury in 1989 setting the stage for the Human Genome Project?

Andrea Alfano — Tue, 27 Oct 2015 19:25:14 +0000

fter we posted a blog entry celebrating the 25th anniversary of the launch of the Human Genome Project (HGP), Nancy Craig, a professor emerita in the Department of Molecular Biology & Genetics at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, sent in a question that we thought the rest of you Lab Dish readers might be...

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The Human Genome Project opened a new era of science

Communications Department — Fri, 02 Oct 2015 18:48:34 +0000

hen a group of ambitious biologists embarked on a mission to sequence all three billion pairs of ‘letters’ in the human genome on October 1, 1990, they faced enormous skepticism. Among the leaders of the effort was James Watson, co-discoverer of the double-helical structure of DNA and Director of ��ϳԹ��Դ at the...

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Crossroads

Public Affairs Administrator — Mon, 29 Sep 2014 17:59:51 +0000

In 1986, scientists from across the world met at CSHL to talk about the Human Genome Project for the first time.

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CSHL team helps Neanderthal Genome Project identify differences between Neanderthals and modern humans

Communications Department — Thu, 06 May 2010 23:19:01 +0000

Only 83 Neanderthal proteins are found to differ from human proteins Cold Spring Harbor, NY — How much do we, who are alive today, differ from our most recent evolutionary ancestors, the cave-dwelling Neanderthals, hominids who lived in Europe and parts of Asia and went extinct about 30,000 years ago? And how much do Neanderthals, in...

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Reference genome of maize, America’s most important crop, is published by team co-led by CSHL scientists

Peter Tarr — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:23:11 +0000

Complex sequence and “HapMap” shed light on maize’s “wonderful diversity” could help in future efforts to adapt the plant to a warming climate Cold Spring Harbor, NY — A four-year, multi-institutional effort co-led by three ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) scientists culminated today in publication of a landmark series of papers in the journal Science...

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Scientists find a fingerprint of evolution across the human genome

Communications Department — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 19:30:56 +0000

Splicing exerts selective pressure on DNA sequence Cold Spring Harbor, NY — The Human Genome Project revealed that only a small fraction of the 3 billion “letter” DNA code actually instructs cells to manufacture proteins, the workhorses of most life processes. This has raised the question of what the remaining part of the human genome...

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Nassau County Senate delegation breaks ground for biotechnology at CSHL

Communications Department — Thu, 14 Jul 2005 19:26:35 +0000

��ϳԹ��Դ President Bruce Stillman and Chancellor James D. Watson welcomed Senator Dean Skelos; Senator Carl Marcellino and Charles A. Gargano, Chairman of Empire State Development, at a groundbreaking ceremony today to begin construction on The Center for Bioinformatics at ��ϳԹ��Դ, solidifying the efforts to boost the biotech industry on...

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