At the Lab

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) stands at the forefront of breakthrough bioscience in cancer, neuroscience, plant biology, and genomics. At the Lab, we dive into this groundbreaking research, bringing you the latest discoveries with the potential to change lives and the world. Each week, our podcast features another CSHL researcher or educator focused on the biggest global issues and scientific mysteries of the past, present, and future—from deadly diseases to climate change.

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Episodes

4 days ago

As the first season of our new podcast winds down, we’re revisiting all of our episodes with a focus on CSHL’s cutting-edge cancer research.

Tuesday Oct 01, 2024

Step inside EN-TEx, a catalog of more than one million genomic variants, and hear about its potential for the future of science and medicine.

Tuesday Sep 24, 2024

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory solves a plant biology mystery some 4,000 years in the making. The implications may go far beyond vegetables.

Tuesday Sep 17, 2024

CSHL Professor Alea Mills compares the deadly brain cancer glioblastoma to a car with its brakes cut. Her lab works to reattach them.

Episode 23: Cured with CRISPR

Tuesday Sep 10, 2024

Tuesday Sep 10, 2024

Victoria Gray, the first person ever cured of sickle cell, appeared on a DNA Learning Center panel featuring a clinical scientist from CSHL.

Episode 22: Outmuscling cancer

Tuesday Sep 03, 2024

Tuesday Sep 03, 2024

After 10 years, CSHL has made a breakthrough in the study of RMS, a rare pediatric cancer. How we got here is a story of innovation and perseverance.

Tuesday Aug 27, 2024

What makes you, you? CSHL Assistant Professor Gabrielle Pouchelon looks for answers in the brain’s earliest neural connections.

Episode 20: Cleanup on IL-6

Tuesday Aug 20, 2024

Tuesday Aug 20, 2024

CSHL Professor Bo Li set out to study a tiny group of neurons involved in cancer cachexia. What he found astounded even him. 

Episode 19: Brain sex

Tuesday Aug 13, 2024

Tuesday Aug 13, 2024

How are sex differences defined in the brain? CSHL Associate Professor Jessica Tollkuhn delivers a thought-provoking primer on a fascinating topic.

Tuesday Aug 06, 2024

A sobering conversation on a breakthrough discovery with potentially significant implications for cancer patients everywhere.

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Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Founded in 1890, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory has shaped contemporary biomedical research and education with programs in cancer, neuroscience, plant biology and quantitative biology. Home to eight Nobel Prize winners, the private, not-for-profit Laboratory employs 1,000 people including 600 scientists, students and technicians. The Meetings & Courses Program hosts more than 12,000 scientists from around the world each year on its campuses in Long Island and in Suzhou, China. The Laboratory’s education arm also includes an academic publishing house, a graduate school and programs for middle, high school, and undergraduate students and teachers.

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