In 1939, a young mathematician named Claude Shannon arrived at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL). If Shannon’s name doesn’t ring a bell, you may recognize his namesake, Anthropic’s Claude AI. At a ...

CSHL’s Banbury Center hosted a three-day meeting on Pediatric Sarcomas: Targets for Therapeutic Development. The “sarcoma group” was comprised of scientists, clinicians, patient advocates, ...

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) Associate Professor Tobias Janowitz has been appointed director of the Institute of Cancer Research, the oncology arm of the Feinstein Institutes for Medical ...

A new research method combines PacBio HiFi and CiFi sequencing techniques. Here, we see resulting genomic data from the prairie vole (left) and meadow vole (right). Prairie voles are among the rare ...

Using a combination of single-cell sequencing and AI simulations, CSHL scientists were able to estimate that, during training in the thymus, T cells will only interact with about 240 ...

This July, the 11 th annual Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) Raft Race saw a lean roster of three teams competing amidst surf, salt, and sun—lots of sun. Rafts built from spare parts by members of ...

3D renderings of the mouse (left) and marmoset brain (right). The main vision-processing area of the brain, known as VISp or V1, is in red. The areas shaded in blue denote other brain areas involved ...

Ten years ago, everything changed. On December 23, 2016, the FDA approved Spinraza for use in treating the fatal neurodegenerative disease spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). Ten years ago, SMA was the ...

Antibiotic resistance has quietly become one of the greatest threats to global healthcare. Each year, drug-resistant bacteria claim lives by rendering once-reliable antibiotics ineffective, turning ...

How do we learn to remember? At the most fundamental level, it’s all about chemicals and electricity. Beyond their roles in diet and nutrition, calcium and magnesium work as ions, or charged particles ...

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 ...

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 ...