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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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A science career path: Jason Williams

Daniel Dunaief — Fri, 24 Apr 2020 13:00:50 +0000

He is now a leader at the DNA Learning Center, the place that taught him to love biology in high school. ason Williams started out on the other side of the lab bench. While attending Half Hollow Hills High School, Williams was a student at the ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) DNA Learning Center (DNALC),...

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A science career path: David McCandlish

Brian Stallard — Fri, 10 Apr 2020 13:00:19 +0000

His interdisciplinary research began by reading a book. hen you see his office, with books stacked from floor to ceiling and papers strewn across desks, it’s clear that David McCandlish is an avid reader. As an assistant professor and quantitative biologist at CSHL, McCandlish endeavors to stay up to date on the newest and greatest...

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Fresh insights into prostate cancer surprise Movember crowd

Brian Stallard — Fri, 22 Nov 2019 22:02:22 +0000

crowd of moustached men and women gathered, beers in hand, at Six Harbors Brewing Co. in Huntington, N.Y. They sported handlebars, pencils, chevrons, and rainbow-colored fu manchus. But this wasn’t some meetup for eccentric moustache aficionados. November is Movemeber, men’s health awareness month, and the crowd gathered to hear Dr. Lloyd Trotman speak about prostate...

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The important role of an Uplands Farm cat

Charlotte Hu — Tue, 29 Oct 2019 21:39:02 +0000

inding around wide fields of yellowing maize stalks and sorghum grains, the road into ��ϳԹ��Դ’s Uplands Farm stretches past a small collection of buildings. One house holds the plant scientists’ most precious treasures: seeds. A small cat stands guard outside the door, sitting with her eyes half-closed on the sun-soaked grass. “This...

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Nobel laureate William Kaelin draws a crowd

Charlotte Hu — Tue, 29 Oct 2019 15:17:18 +0000

cientists and students packed Grace Auditorium at ��ϳԹ��Դ on October 17, filling almost every seat to hear the latest in cancer research from William Kaelin, who just 10 days before was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Kaelin, a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute,...

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The world of Brianna Bibel, The Bumbling Biochemist

Charlotte Hu — Tue, 17 Sep 2019 20:29:37 +0000

hen Alexandra Newton first opened an Instagram account for the International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, she typed “biochemistry” on the search bar to see what others were posting. That’s when she entered the world of Brianna Bibel, a third-year graduate student at the Watson School of Biological Sciences who’s better known across social...

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A survivor’s path to cancer research

Communications Department — Fri, 09 Aug 2019 14:14:44 +0000

hen I was eight years old, I was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) and underwent about two and a half years of treatment. Before having cancer, my hope for the future was to become the President of the United States. But after having cancer, my priorities have changed. I realized that I wanted to...

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Hitting the high notes at the Lab

Sara Roncero-Menendez — Thu, 23 May 2019 20:39:34 +0000

ike many academic institutions with long, storied histories, ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) boasts many beloved traditions. One of the most dear is the official CSHL choir that fills the Lab with the sweet sounds of harmony at campus ceremonies and celebrations. The choir first began in 2004, when the need arose for a school...

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Science is a lesson in ‘eye-opening’ for students and teachers

Communications Department — Wed, 27 Feb 2019 21:35:20 +0000

n science, you are both student and teacher—almost never just one or the other. On a day not long ago, as I watched a class of twenty or so high schoolers leap off their seats and lunge at pipettes and spaceship-like centrifuges, tiny plastic combs and neon Eppendorf tubes, I was primarily a teacher. Within...

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What does sight mean to a cancer researcher?

Sara Roncero-Menendez — Tue, 26 Feb 2019 18:41:22 +0000

ur image of cancer researchers is often that of lab-coated scientists peering into microscopes, looking at samples that will lead to important breakthroughs. But what does it really mean for a cancer researcher to see? Dr. Leah Banks, a postdoctoral fellow in Professor Alea A. Mills’s lab at ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL), has given...

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From workshops to lab work—right next door

Sara Roncero-Menendez — Thu, 13 Sep 2018 19:00:19 +0000

he spark that inspires researchers, engineers, doctors, and many others to turn science from an interest to a career can come from anywhere—a particularly engaging class in school, a thrilling documentary on TV, or even a book recommended by a librarian. For college student and aspiring researcher James Korossy, the scientific spark started by simply...

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Being a scientist means being part of a team

Communications Department — Tue, 12 Jun 2018 14:42:02 +0000

Written by Jerinna Solages, Senior at Amityville Memorial High School and Partners for the Future program participant. An avid writer, she penned her first novel, Hinder, before graduating middle school. was sitting in my 6th-period AP Physics class and the buzzing of my phone briefly removed me from what was happening around me. As I...

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A science writer’s quest to understand heredity

Andrea Alfano — Wed, 30 May 2018 15:00:45 +0000

t this very moment, there is more Neanderthal DNA on Earth than there was when Neanderthals were alive. Bits of their DNA, inherited tens of thousands of years ago, persist in many of our genomes today. This astounding legacy is one of many revelations that renowned science writer Carl Zimmer uses to burst open readers’...

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How do plants know when to flower?

Andrea Alfano — Fri, 18 May 2018 16:43:39 +0000

eather forecasting technologies and clairvoyant groundhogs are among the tools that we humans use to predict when spring will arrive. When colorful flowers and foliage burst from plants, we finally know it is here. But how do plants know that it is time to put out spring flowers? Plants have no nervous system to feel...

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Kids today are doing what forensics experts couldn’t just 25 years ago

Andrea Alfano — Tue, 06 Mar 2018 16:14:32 +0000

ny savvy criminal in today’s world would try not to leave DNA evidence behind at the crime scene. But 5,000 years ago, criminals didn’t have to be so careful. At a recent session of the DNA Learning Center’s Saturday DNA! program, students aged 10 to 13 used DNA evidence to try to identify the killer...

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Welcome to the real world of science, I’ll be your guide

Andrea Alfano — Mon, 05 Feb 2018 19:06:30 +0000

cience is not too hard for you to understand. That was Jackie Novatt’s attitude during every tour she gave at CSHL, where she herself was a researcher, and it showed. She wasn’t interested in merely dazzling visitors with high-tech equipment and triumphant success stories. She was determined to show the people on her tours how...

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45 years later, a scientist realizes he’s a star

Andrea Alfano — Wed, 24 Jan 2018 18:59:15 +0000

or decades, David Haas had all but forgotten about the crystal freezing technique he invented in the late 1960s for visualizing molecules. But while he was off working in the manufacturing industry, this technique was helping researchers develop drugs for HIV, among other diseases. It facilitated Nobel Prize-winning advances including cryo-electron microscopy, which won the...

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Turning off the immune system is hard. Turning it on against cancer is easier.

Andrea Alfano — Wed, 10 Jan 2018 21:14:38 +0000

he immune system’s awesome power has captivated Professor Douglas Fearon throughout over 45 years of study, both as a medical doctor and as a scientist. Yet just 10 years ago, he “didn’t believe in cancer immunology,” he admits frankly. Today, cancer drugs based on the idea of harnessing the immune system’s power are helping to...

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A spot at the podium: The Women in Biology Speakers List

Andrea Alfano — Wed, 06 Dec 2017 01:49:52 +0000

The gender imbalance in slates of invited speakers for scientific conferences is an issue that CSHL’s Women in Science and Engineering (WiSE) group and Meetings & Courses division were well-positioned to tackle. They created the Women in Biology Speakers List to inspire conference organizers to invite more women to speak. hen a group dedicated to...

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