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CSHL opens archives for Love Data Week 2026

Nick Wurm — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 12:30:23 +0000

Zoonomia; or the Laws of Organic Life, a proto-evolutionary medical text by Charles Darwin’s grandfather, Erasmus Darwin." data-description="" />��ϳԹ��Դ’s (CSHL’s) Library & Archives offer a wealth of invaluable resources documenting the history of biology and medical research. For international Love Data Week, which ran from February 9-13, the CSHL Center for Humanities and History of Modern Biology invited members of the public and the Lab community to view artifacts, books,...

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Center for Humanities hosts author Marc Torres

Nick Wurm — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 11:30:20 +0000

On August 20, the ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) Center for Humanities & History of Modern Biology hosted an author talk with Marc Torres, who discussed his latest book, Long Island and the Legacy of Eugenics: Station of Intolerance. From 1910 to 1939, the Carnegie Institute of Washington’s Station for Experimental Evolution, a predecessor of...

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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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The Firehouse

Nick Wurm — Thu, 26 Dec 2024 12:30:04 +0000

ou might be wondering what that building is doing on a barge up there. It’s quite the story. In the winter of 1930, when it wasn’t fighting fires, the Cold Spring Harbor Fire Department was raising money for a new fire station. But what to do with the old one? Built in 1906, it was...

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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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New Library & Archives Chair established at CSHL

Communications Department — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 11:30:34 +0000

The Robert D.L. Gardiner Foundation has made a $3 million commitment to ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL), establishing an endowment to name the Robert David Lion Gardiner Chair of Library & Archives. This endowment will support CSHL’s Library & Archives and the Center for Humanities’ broad educational programs in perpetuity. This gift will ensure that...

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Penicillin: From limited wonder drug to worldwide lifesaver

Jen A. Miller — Wed, 10 Jan 2024 12:30:00 +0000

Penicillium mold with X-rays. Incredibly, the mutated strain was able to produce double the penicillin. Demerec’s breakthrough led to research that allowed the U.S. to ramp up production of this much-needed medicine. Penicillium image: © sinhyu - stock.adobe.com." data-description="" />Penicillin changed the world. The drug turned infections that had threatened lives into something that could be cured with a shot. But there was a catch. It only worked if you could get it and distribute it. During World War II, the U.S. military could not. That was until discoveries at ��ϳԹ��Դ...

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Where history connects

Luis Sandoval — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 12:30:58 +0000

During World War II, many displaced scientists were forced to search for a new life. One particular biologist, Dr. Helene Meyer-Unger, ended up in New York City. When she learned about the pioneering research happening at ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL), she sent a letter to the lab hoping for a chance to continue doing...

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Inside a Nobelist’s notebooks

Nick Wurm — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 17:00:45 +0000

It takes a lot of work to win a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. For over 130 years, ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) has stood at the forefront of genetics research. And throughout this rich history, the Laboratory’s Meetings & Courses Program has hosted countless Nobel laureates. CSHL is also home to eight of...

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Gene editing’s rocky start and groundbreaking legacy

Nick Wurm — Wed, 13 Sep 2023 11:30:52 +0000

Over 50 years ago, the first recombinant DNA experiments brought genome editing out of the realm of science fiction and into the mainstream. Recombinant DNA (rDNA) is a hybrid molecule made by combining DNA from two different species. Its arrival opened a Pandora’s box. Some feared it could lead to mutant viruses able to wipe...

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Blending history and science

Nick Wurm — Thu, 17 Aug 2023 11:30:51 +0000

In 1952, ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) was the site for one of the most famous experiments in the history of biology. At the Animal House—later renamed in honor of Nobel laureate Barbara McClintock—Alfred Hershey and Martha Chase were working with viruses called bacteriophages. The pair sought to confirm whether genes were made of DNA...

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CSHL Meetings & Courses then and now

Nick Wurm — Wed, 15 Mar 2023 11:30:34 +0000

The sandy shores of New York’s Cold Spring Harbor have been home to over a century of groundbreaking biological research. But pioneering science doesn’t usually happen in a vacuum. Since 1890, ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) and its predecessors have brought together scientists from around the world to learn, trade ideas, and collaborate. On March...

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President’s essay: Foundations for the future

Communications Department — Wed, 25 May 2022 11:30:35 +0000

This essay highlights the diverse programs of ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL), revealing how seemingly separate initiatives strategically intertwine to make this institution central to the future of science. I believe that the interconnectivity of our research and education programs is CSHL’s greatest strength. Combined, they enhance the impact of science conducted on our Long...

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How a world on pause sparked educational innovation at CSHL

Eliene Augenbraun — Mon, 04 Apr 2022 11:30:14 +0000

��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) educational programs provided a lifeline to scientists, teachers, and students during the pandemic. In February 2020 the DNA Learning Center switched from live to virtual experiences, creating 286 new videos that were viewed over 3.7 million times, and attracted nearly 19,000 new subscribers to the DNALC Live YouTube channel. They...

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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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CSHL alumna donates her Nobel-Prize winning lab notebooks

Luis Sandoval — Tue, 13 Apr 2021 14:00:22 +0000

Carol Greider has donated her lab notebooks and data to ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) Library & Archives. The material chronicles her work from 1975 to 1992, covering her Nobel Prize-winning work. Greider made her pioneering discoveries as a graduate student in Elizabeth Blackburn’s lab at the University of California Berkeley in the 1980s. CSHL...

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Bridging lessons from the HIV/AIDS pandemic to COVID-19

Luis Sandoval — Wed, 24 Mar 2021 16:00:10 +0000

The HIV/AIDS epidemic offers lessons for today’s COVID-19 pandemic. The ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) Center for Humanities & History of Modern Biology captured some of those lessons in a 2016 CSHL conference, “HIV/AIDS Research: Its History and Future.” In 2021, they developed a new kind of annotated digital archive that allows readers to easily...

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CSHL Center for Humanities wins NEH Grant

Sara Roncero-Menendez — Wed, 01 Jul 2020 15:00:42 +0000

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has awarded the ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) Center for Humanities & History of Modern Biology a CARES Act Grant. The grant will fund an extensive oral history initiative documenting biomedical history and pandemic response since 1890. The project, entitled “Oral Histories of Biology, Medicine, and Pandemic Response”...

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Nobelist Sir Richard Roberts talks GMOs at CSHL

Sara Roncero-Menendez — Fri, 26 Jun 2020 21:07:20 +0000

Nobel laureate and molecular biologist Sir Richard Roberts discussed golden rice and genetically modified organisms (GMOs) via a video conference with over 250 participants. The event was hosted by the ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) Library. Pamela Ronald, director of the Institute for Food and Agricultural Literacy at UC Davis and author of Tomorrow’s Table:...

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Nobelist Sir Richard Roberts talks GMOs at CSHL hosted event

Marc Persad — Thu, 25 Jun 2020 14:48:45 +0000

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