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Congratulations to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, & Shimon Sakaguchi, awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries that reshaped our understanding of immune regulation. CSHL is proud to have hosted & published work by these pioneering scientists!

The magnetic math of breast health  | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory 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 ot...

Did you know that breasts have branches? Disturbances to this tree of life can have implications for breast cancer risk. Now, three grad students in CSHL's @caoresco.bsky.social lab have developed a computer model for measuring such changes. #BreastCancerAwareness www.cshl.edu/the-magnetic...

Early-onset cancers are on the rise & scientists are racing to understand why. This NYT feature highlights research from CSHL Associate Professor Camila dos Santos on how pregnancy, breastfeeding, & even urinary tract infections can leave lasting marks on breast tissue & influence cancer risk.

Congratulations to CSHL Assistant Professor Corina Amor Vegas, recently appointed @hhmi.org Freeman Hrabowski Scholar! Her pioneering work on senescence and the immune system may unlock future therapies for aging-related conditions.

@corina-amor.bsky.social @amor-lab.bsky.social

Borniger reaches Cancer Grand Challenges finals | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) Assistant Professor Jeremy Borniger has been selected for the final stages of a Cancer Grand Challenges research initiative as part of team NEUROIMPACT. The team s...

Congrats to CSHL's @jborniger.bsky.social and team NEUROIMPACT on making the @cancergrand.bsky.social finals! Their research, showing how the nervous system detects and responds to cancer, could point to new ways of treating the deadly disease. #CancerNeuroscience www.cshl.edu/borniger-rea...

Go inside cancer’s biology | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory What happens inside and around a cancer cell? How does a tumor’s interaction with its surroundings contribute to cancer’s growth and spread? These questions could lead to a new generation of cancer th...

How do tumors grow, spread & interact with their surroundings? Scientists gathered at CSHL last week to share answers that could shape the future of cancer therapies. Read more: www.cshl.edu/go-inside-ca...

Cocktails and Chromosomes Unleash your inner scientist and join us for an exciting evening at the intersection of cocktails and cutting-edge research!

You’re invited to CSHL Professor Alexei Koulakov’s presentation of “The hitchhiker's guide to the smelliverse” this Thursday, September 25th! Our Eventbrite will give you access to the details of our upcoming journey: www.eventbrite.com/e/cocktails-...

A journey into animal aging | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

In the latest Cocktails & Chromosomes, CSHL Professor Chris Hammell explains how C. elegans worms with genetic mutations can either repeat their developmental programs endlessly—never properly aging—or fast-forward through life: www.cshl.edu/videos/a-jou...

Cocktails and Chromosomes Unleash your inner scientist and join us for an exciting evening at the intersection of cocktails and cutting-edge research!

This month’s edition of Cocktails & Chromosomes features Professor Alexei Koulakov, who will be discussing the science behind your sense of smell. Visit our Eventbrite for more information and to RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/cocktails-...

Worldwide collaboration, brain-wide technology | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory What if we could map how behaviors play out across the entire brain at the level of single cells? What if, using that data, we could measure how prior knowledge affects decision-making? As featured on...

Imagine a map of the brain that shows—at the level of single neurons—how decisions are made. Now, imagine using that map to see how prior knowledge informs those decisions. You don't have to use your imagination thanks to @intlbrainlab.bsky.social's new study.

www.cshl.edu/worldwide-co...

Piano/Violin duo Chaeyoung Park & Oliver Neubauer | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Piano/Violin duo, Chaeyoung Park & Oliver Neubauer, will perform at CSHL. Reception to follow.

Join us for CSHL’s last concert of 2025, featuring pianist Chaeyoung Park and violinist Oliver Neubauer, this Friday, September 19th. You won’t want to miss the magic. More information and tickets can be found here: www.cshl.edu/mc-events/pi...

Kennedy’s Disease impacts patients and families worldwide. This week at Banbury, scientists, clinicians, and advocates explored how metabolism drives #SBMA and built collaborations for future progress.

🧬 Excited for the 2025 Biology of Cancer meeting at @cshlnews.bsky.social

This @cshlmeetings.bsky.social meeting cover created by Gemini AI showcases how AI tools are enhancing scientific communication!

Features 4 compelling talks and 10+ cutting-edge posters from CSHL Cancer Center

#CSHLCancer

You’ve never seen corn like this before | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory 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 unknow...

Plant stem cells shape how crops grow—yet their key regulators remain hidden. CSHL researchers have now mapped these rare cells in maize & Arabidopsis, uncovering new genes tied to growth & productivity. This knowledge could help breed more resilient, high-yield crops. www.cshl.edu/youve-never-...

CSHL mourns the loss of David Baltimore | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) mourns the passing of Nobel laureate and revolutionary molecular biologist David Baltimore. In 1959, Baltimore became the first member of CSHL’s newly launched Und...

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory mourns the passing of Nobel laureate David Baltimore. His career was shaped by a summer at CSHL in 1959, leading to his groundbreaking discovery of reverse transcriptase—an advance that reshaped biology. www.cshl.edu/cshl-mourns-...

New opinion piece by Tobias Janowitz at @cshlnews.bsky.social‬ & team CANCAN: Of Hope from Fading Will.

How cancer influences brain–body communication, why #cachexia may begin as an adaptive response, and how patient-reported symptoms can guide new interventions
👉 www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

A graduation cap like no other | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory No two people learn the same. At the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory School of Biological Sciences (SBS), graduate students have the unique opportunity to rotate through several different labs and condu...

At the Lab, graduation caps aren’t just caps — they’re stories.

Find out how this one-of-a-kind tradition became one of our favorite lab rituals. www.cshl.edu/a-graduation...

CSHL recently hosted its 4th annual tree-lighting to honor Pediatric Cancer Awareness Month. The tree-lighting is a reminder to our entire community that we remain stronger when we work together against childhood cancer.

Enter the CRISPR frontier | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Last month, the Genome Engineering: CRISPR Frontiers meeting at CSHL brought together the field’s top minds to share unpublished breakthroughs & push the frontier forward. www.cshl.edu/videos/enter...

Piano/Violin duo Chaeyoung Park & Oliver Neubauer | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Piano/Violin duo, Chaeyoung Park & Oliver Neubauer, will perform at CSHL. Reception to follow.

Pianist Chaeyoung Park and violinist Oliver Neubauer, two rising stars in their craft, have prepared a night of splendor for the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. community. Join us on September 19 at CSHL’s Grace Auditorium. More information and tickets can be found here: www.cshl.edu/mc-events/pi...

Cello/Piano duo Sergey Antonov & Ilya Kazantsev | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cello/Piano duo, Sergey Antonov & Ilya Kazantsev, will perform at CSHL. Reception to follow.

The beauty of the piano and the cello will be expertly blended by artists Sergey Antonov and Ilya Kazantsev on September 11th at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory’s Grace Auditorium. Doors open at 5:45 pm with a reception to follow. More information and tickets can be found: www.cshl.edu/mc-events/ce...

Plate Race 2025 | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

CSHL summer Courses are intense—15 hours a day of lectures & labs. But every August, students blow off steam in the Plate Race, a 40+ year tradition down Bungtown Road. www.cshl.edu/videos/plate...

The Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory community mourns the loss of Victor Mcelheny, the Banbury Center’s first ever Director. We send our deepest condolences to Victor’s loved ones. The CSHL community will remember him and his contributions with gratitude. @cshlbanbury.bsky.social

Invisibility cloak pioneer Sir John Pendry awarded Royal Society’s top prize | Royal Society The Royal Society announces the medals and awards recipients 2025

Very honored to receive the Royal Society Research Culture Award - this represents the work of a great team who've worked non-stop since we launched bioRxiv in 2013 royalsociety.org/news/2025/08... www.cshl.edu/inglis-and-s...

As cofounders of @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social and @medrxivpreprint.bsky.social they credit the teams for helping transform how science is shared. In 2025, they launched @openrxiv.bsky.social , now overseeing 430K+ preprints from institutions worldwide. @chanzuckerberg.bsky.social

Inglis and Sever earn Royal Society Research Culture Award | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory’s (CSHL’s) John Inglis and Richard Sever have earned The Royal Society’s 2025 Research Culture Award. The two were honored for cofounding the preeminent biomedical prepri...

CSHL’s John Inglis & Richard Sever have received @royalsociety.org’s
2025 Research Culture Award. www.cshl.edu/inglis-and-s...

A new fix for brain cancer? | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

At Cocktails & Chromosomes last month, Professor Mills shared insights on epigenetics & glioblastoma. Join us 8/28 at 7 pm for Professor Chris Hammell’s presentation on animal aging. www.cshl.edu/videos/a-new...

Can you ace this SMA quiz?

Take a moment to test your knowledge of Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA), one of the leading genetic causes of infant mortality. CSHL is hoping to spread awareness for #SMAAwarenessMonth with a short, informative quiz.

www.cshl.edu/quiz/can-you...

Ever use cortisone? Thank one farmer and two CSHL scientists | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Addison’s disease is no walk in the park. The disorder occurs when a person’s adrenal glands don’t make enough cortisol. This hormone plays a key role in multiple bodily functions, including metabolis...

The medicine you rely on. The creams in your cabinet. The injections that fight cancer. They all trace back to a single Addison’s patient in 1930—saved by an experimental treatment that came out of CSHL: www.cshl.edu/ever-use-cor...

Catalyst: A family legacy of hope | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory A family legacy of hope Born out of love and remembrance for a son and a brother, the Don Monti Memorial Research Foundation has impacted the lives of families for more than 40 years and is one of the...

The Don Monti Memorial Research Foundation has recently supported CSHL Assistant Professor Lingbo Zhang’s work on acute myeloid leukemia & myelodysplastic syndrome. His team is uncovering new treatment pathways that could bring hope to patients.

www.cshl.edu/catalyst-a-f...