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David Jackson elected Fellow of the Royal Society

Samuel Diamond — Wed, 27 May 2026 09:00:18 +0000

��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) Professor David Jackson has been elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society. Having the letters FRS (Fellow of the Royal Society) tacked onto the end of one’s name is among the very highest honors a scientist can achieve. It’s a mark of elite distinction. Other Fellows of the Royal...

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Fostering the future of science

Nick Wurm — Wed, 20 May 2026 11:30:20 +0000

Science comes first in STEM for good reason. Whether one pursues a career in technology, engineering, or medicine, all that work is rooted in scientific knowledge and experimentation. At ��ϳԹ��Դ, education and research go hand in hand. That’s true at every level and applied in each initiative, including the CSHL Partners for...

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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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No eyes, no brain, no problem

Communications Department — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 11:30:43 +0000

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Secrets of evolution found in ancient plant DNA

Samuel Diamond — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 18:00:13 +0000

You’ve heard of deep space, but what about deep time? Today’s geneticists and evolutionary biologists can extend their investigations further back in time than ever imagined. Still, many mysteries remain. One has vexed biologists for decades. In both plants and animals, gene sequences and functions are often conserved across species over hundreds of millions of...

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CRISPR primes goldenberry for fruit bowl fame

Margaret Osborne — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 12:30:59 +0000

Since the dawn of agriculture around 10,000 years ago, our ancestors have saved seeds from the tastiest, largest, and most resilient crops to plant in the following season. Today, most fruits and vegetables we buy are the result of hundreds to thousands of years of selective breeding. Now, ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) plant biologists...

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AI offers ‘roadmap’ to plant genetics

Margaret Osborne — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 12:30:47 +0000

As global temperatures rise, ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) scientists work to grow stronger, more resilient crops. Yet, this process is challenging. Plants often have several related genes that control desirable traits, such as size or drought resistance. Finding genes with overlapping functions, or “redundant genes,” is a near-impossible scavenger hunt. “Most of the time,...

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Uplands Farm: Grounds for discovery

Jennifer Michalowski — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 12:30:53 +0000

At first glance, Uplands Farm—12 carefully tended acres about a mile east of the ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) campus—resembles farms you might have seen before. Orderly rows of corn dominate the fields, sharing space with sorghum, eggplants, and other crops. Three greenhouses shelter young plants, extending the growing season so they can flourish in...

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You’ve never seen corn like this before

Margaret Osborne — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 11:30:56 +0000

Plant stem cells are crucial for the world’s food supply, animal feed, and fuel production. They lay the foundation for how plants grow. Yet, much about these mysterious building blocks remains unknown. Previous analyses have failed to locate many of the important genes that regulate how these cells function. Now, for the first time, Cold...

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Branching out: Tomato genes point to new medicines

Samuel Diamond — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 15:00:49 +0000

Picture juicy red tomatoes on the vine. What do you see? Some tomato varieties have straight vines. Others are branched. The question is why. New research from ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) provides the strongest evidence to date that the answer lies in what are called cryptic mutations. The findings have implications for agriculture and...

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President’s essay: We are science, and science is crucial

Communications Department — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 12:53:01 +0000

At ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL), we deeply value our uniquely vibrant campus and culture. But we thrive because we are intensely engaged with the broad community of scientists across the United States and the world. By collaborating, educating, and sharing knowledge, we amplify our impact, enabling groundbreaking discovery at CSHL and beyond. This is...

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At the Lab: Science for lovers

Communications Department — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 11:30:27 +0000

��ϳԹ��Դ Professor Zach Lippman’s research in plant prickles resulted in one of CSHL’s most publicized discoveries of 2024. It also gets at the very heart of what motivates basic bioscience research here At the Lab. You’ve read about it in The New York Times and seen it on CNN. Now, hear all...

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The food and fuel that farms itself

Nick Wurm — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 15:00:41 +0000

AI generated voice with Rob Martienssen’s and Evan Ernst’s actual voices Under the right conditions, duckweed essentially farms itself. Wastewater, ponds, puddles, swamps—you name it. If there’s enough sunlight and carbon dioxide, the aquatic plant can grow freely. But that’s not all that makes it intriguing. Packed inside duckweed’s tiny fronds is enormous potential as...

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CSHL and global collaborators map Solanum pan-genome

Margaret Osborne — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 16:00:00 +0000

AI generated voice with Zachary Lippman’s actual voice About 75 percent of the world’s food comes from 12 plants. Scientists estimate up to 30,000 species are edible. Not only does this bottleneck jeopardize our food supply if a major crop is impacted by drought or disease—it also limits our choices at the grocery store. For...

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CSHL high schoolers named top Regeneron Scholars

Nick Wurm — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 12:30:03 +0000

��ϳԹ��Դ’s (CSHL’s) Ishana Chadha and Keita Takahashi have been named among the top high school scientists in the country. Each year, about 2,500 high school seniors compete in the Regeneron Science Talent Search. These teenagers represent the future of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Chadha, a volunteer intern in CSHL’s Van Aelst...

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CRISPR manipulates plants’ flower powers

Margaret Osborne — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 17:00:49 +0000

AI generated voice with Zachary Lippman’s actual voice Humans have appreciated the beauty of flowers for centuries. Yet, flowers aren’t just aesthetically pleasing. They also play a crucial role in plant reproduction. In all plants, a well-studied gene with a curious name, Unusual Floral Organs (UFO), orchestrates the flowering process. UFO expression hinges on another...

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No Two Plants

Caroline Cosgrove — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 12:30:06 +0000

No Two Plants was made as part of the 2024 Symbiosis initiative presented at the Science New Wave Festival XVII and supported by the Simons Foundation." data-description="" />Every year on February 11, we celebrate International Day of Women and Girls in Science, honoring women and girls’ contributions to a field long dominated by men. Among these trailblazers is Nobel laureate Barbara McClintock, whose groundbreaking work at ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) reshaped our understanding of genetics. For the filmmaking competition Symbiosis, CSHL...

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Corn’s ancient ancestors are calling

Jen A. Miller — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 12:30:17 +0000

AI generated voice with Rob Martienssen’s and Thomas Gingeras’s actual voices The domestication of maize is one of the greatest examples of humankind’s impact on evolution. Early farmers’ pre-industrial plant breeding choices turned corn from a nearly inedible crop into the major global food source it is today. Now, ��ϳԹ��Դ Professors Rob...

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Big clues emerge in small RNA mystery

Jen A. Miller — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 12:30:00 +0000

Arabidopsis plant (as seen above) is loaded with a molecule called pseudouridine." data-description="" />AI generated voice with Rob Martienssen’s actual voice Not everything inside us is, strictly speaking, us. The closer we look at the genome, the more we appreciate the role of small RNAs in what we call epigenetic inheritance. That’s when traits get passed down without altering our basic DNA sequence. We now know that small...

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Frog Pond

Nick Wurm — Wed, 27 Nov 2024 12:30:02 +0000

bout halfway down ��ϳԹ��Դ’s (CSHL’s) Bungtown Road, right next to the volleyball court, you’ll find a living snapshot of the area’s diverse ecosystem. It’s called Frog Pond. And while its namesake is often easy to find there, frogs aren’t the pond’s only inhabitants. On any given day, passersby may encounter dragonflies, geese,...

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