Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
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The Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) is a private, non-profit institution with research programs focusing on cancer, neurobiology, plant genetics, genomics and bioinformatics. The Laboratory has a broad educational mission, including the recently established Watson School of Biological Sciences. It currently employs over 400 scientists. Over its history eight Nobel laureates have worked at the laboratory.
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory is one of sixty-three institutions supported by the Cancer Centers Program of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and has been a NCI-designated cancer center since 1987.
Though the lab's name references the hamlet of Cold Spring Harbor located in Suffolk County, its headquarters are physically located in the adjacent Nassau County village of Laurel Hollow.
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Scientists discover mobile small RNAs that set up leaf patterning in plants
Mar 01, 2009 |
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A key item in the developmental agenda of a plant leaf is the establishment of an axis that makes a leaf's top half distinct from its bottom half. This asymmetry is crucial for the leaf's function: it ensures that the leaf ...
Researchers identify gene that helps plant cells keep communication channels open
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Feb 17, 2009 |
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Plant cells communicate via microscopic channels called plasmodesmata that are embedded in their cell walls. For the stem cells in the plants' growing tips, called "meristems," the plasmodesmata are lifelines, allowing nutrients ...
Scientists discover how 'companion' cells to sperm protect them from genetic damage
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Feb 05, 2009 |
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In plant pollen grains, sperm cells, which carry the genetic material to be passed on to progeny, are cocooned within larger "companion" cells that are called pollen vegetative cells. These companions provide sperm with ...
Scientists clarify editing error underlying genetic neurodegenerative disease
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Jan 28, 2009 |
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Two molecular biologists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory have uncovered important new details about how a gene mutation causes a cellular editing error that results in a devastating disease called pontocerebellar hypoplasia ...
Scientists find a new class of small RNAs and define its function
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Jan 26, 2009 |
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Researchers at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) announced today the discovery of a new class of small RNAs. At the same time, they reported that their discovery suggests the presence of a strikingly novel biochemical ...
