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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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The magnetic math of breast health

Margaret Osborne — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 11:30:32 +0000

Branching isn’t just for trees. This biological process occurs in animal development, enabling organs to perform complex functions. Branch-like structures form in lungs, kidneys, and breasts, among other places. Importantly, only in female mammary glands does most branching occur years after birth. It happens during puberty and again during pregnancy as milk ducts branch out...

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BATMAN brings TCR therapy out of the shadows

Nick Wurm — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 15:00:02 +0000

Imagine your immune cells could be modified to attack any kind of cancer. T cell receptor (TCR) therapy has the potential to one day become a universal cancer treatment. But there are risks. Similarities between cancerous and healthy cells can affect the body’s immune response, causing T cells to attack unintended targets. TCR therapy needs...

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The CSHL School of Biological Sciences’ class of 2025

Communications Department — Mon, 05 May 2025 18:00:58 +0000

The ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) School of Biological Sciences (SBS) takes an innovative approach to advanced science education. Graduates of the doctoral program go on to pursue a wide range of careers. On May 4, the SBS awarded nine graduates Ph.D. degrees. Here, the class of 2025 reflects on their time and experiences at...

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A perception quiz to blow your mind

Communications Department — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 11:30:40 +0000

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Navlakha named Simons Foundation Pivot fellow

Nick Wurm — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 12:30:26 +0000

Scientific progress isn’t always a straight line. Discovery demands flexibility—a willingness to go off the beaten path. Oftentimes, that means leaving one’s comfort zone. And that’s exactly what ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) Associate Professor Saket Navlakha has in mind. Navlakha has received a 2024 Simons Foundation Pivot Fellowship. Launched in 2022, the fellowship supports...

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At the Lab Season 1 Research Rewind: AI+

Communications Department — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 11:30:55 +0000

How do we interpret what AI tells us without knowing the logic of its own interpretations? How do we make artificial intelligence more efficient and reliable without fully understanding biological intelligence’s efficiency and reliability problems? This season’s final Research Rewind brings us from the realm of quantitative biology to neuroscience, genomics, and beyond. You’ll hear...

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The nervous system’s matchmaker

Jennifer Michalowski — Mon, 02 Sep 2024 19:00:42 +0000

When you ask a rideshare app to find you a car, the company’s computers get to work. They know you want to reach your destination quickly. They know you’re not the only user who needs a ride. And they know drivers want to minimize idle time by picking up someone nearby. The computer’s job, says...

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At the Lab Episode 14: What’s that smell?

Communications Department — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 11:30:02 +0000

Smell is often dismissed as somehow less important than our other four senses. But you shouldn’t look down your nose at it. After all, in the wild, it could mean the difference between life and death. This week At the Lab, CSHL Associate Professor Saket Navlakha offers insight into how we learn to distinguish between...

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Smells like learning

Margaret Osborne — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 18:00:33 +0000

Order wine at a fancy restaurant, and the sommelier might describe its aroma as having notes of citrus, tropical fruit, or flowers. Yet, when you take a whiff, it might just smell like … wine. How can wine connoisseurs pick out such similar scents? ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) Associate Professor Saket Navlakha and Salk...

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Can you outsmart this AI quiz?

Nick Fiore — Mon, 06 Feb 2023 12:30:42 +0000

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��ϳԹ��Դ: Foundations for the Future

Communications Department — Thu, 15 Dec 2022 12:30:31 +0000

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Even fruit flies count

Margaret Osborne — Tue, 25 Oct 2022 11:30:26 +0000

Imagine sitting in your house when you hear a knock on your front door. You peer through the window and see a stranger outside. Almost immediately, your brain knows you’ve never encountered this person before. Maybe you feel scared and pretend you’re not home. Now instead of a stranger, imagine a close friend or family...

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Deciphering algorithms used by ants and the Internet

Eliene Augenbraun — Wed, 02 Mar 2022 00:01:49 +0000

Engineers sometimes turn to nature for inspiration. ��ϳԹ��Դ Associate Professor Saket Navlakha and research scientist Jonathan Suen found that adjustment algorithms—the same feedback control process by which the Internet optimizes data traffic—are used by several natural systems to sense and stabilize behavior, including ant colonies, cells, and neurons. Internet engineers route data...

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How a bad day at work led to better COVID predictions

Jasmine Lee — Tue, 04 May 2021 00:00:51 +0000

Talking about your bad day at work could lead to great solutions. ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) Associate Professor Saket Navlakha and his wife, Dr. Sejal Morjaria, an infectious disease physician at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK), found a way to predict COVID-19 severity in cancer patients. The computational tool they developed prevents unnecessary...

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How to tune out common odors and focus on important ones

Brian Stallard — Mon, 11 May 2020 19:00:27 +0000

“Imagine a dog playing in a garden and smelling all of these different flowery smells, and then somewhere in the distance a predator appears, like a fox. The raw input coming into the dog’s nose is a smell that consists of something like 90% flowers and only five or 10% of this predator,” CSHL Associate...

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What Google could learn from a fruit fly

Communications Department — Tue, 21 Jan 2020 20:35:40 +0000

By tapping into life’s algorithms, scientists are finding elegant solutions to some of the hardest problems in computer science. Let’s say you’re at a big office party full of people, both coworkers and strangers, when someone walks up to you. You have a split second to determine if you know this person or not; you...

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Saket Navlakha taps the power of biology and computers

Brian Stallard — Tue, 17 Dec 2019 14:00:52 +0000

Associate Professor Saket Navlakha, the newest researcher to join the Simons Center for Quantitative Biology at ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL), focuses his work on what he calls the “algorithms of nature,” which are based on how molecules, cells, and organisms process information to solve problems important to their survival. By learning how the biology...

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