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
5 days ago
5 days ago
Shriek if you must. Their remarkable genome might provide new insights into natural links between the immune system, aging, and cancer resistance.
Tuesday Jul 16, 2024
Tuesday Jul 16, 2024
Can AI help us identify the Don Juan of fruit flies? CSHL’s Benjamin Cowley thinks so. Why would we want to do this? Tune in to find out.
Tuesday Jul 09, 2024
Tuesday Jul 09, 2024
You might not realize, but that question is central to the human experience. On this week’s podcast, CSHL’s Saket Navlakha sniffs out answers.
Tuesday Jul 02, 2024
Tuesday Jul 02, 2024
For this week’s podcast, CSHL Professor John Moses bridges the gap between chemistry and biology in less than three minutes.
Tuesday Jun 25, 2024
Tuesday Jun 25, 2024
In this week’s podcast, CSHL Assistant Professor Semir Beyaz reveals how metastatic breast cancer ‘corrupts’ the body’s immune system.
Tuesday Jun 11, 2024
Tuesday Jun 11, 2024
What is neuroAI, and how does it help both neuroscientists and computer scientists? In this week’s podcast, CSHL’s Kyle Daruwalla explains.
Tuesday Jun 04, 2024
Tuesday Jun 04, 2024
“You wouldn’t start making the fingernails on an arm until you had started to make the arm,” says CSHL’s Christopher Hammell. How’s that for a visual?
Tuesday May 28, 2024
Tuesday May 28, 2024
We put the ‘mice’ in ‘maestro,’ with singing lessons from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory neuroscientist Arkarup Banerjee.
Tuesday May 21, 2024
Tuesday May 21, 2024
How did some birds get such distinct colors? CSHL Professor Adam Siepel joins us for a journey across evolution’s “islands of differentiation.”
Tuesday May 14, 2024
Tuesday May 14, 2024
CSHL is no stranger to successful female scientists. Today, we remember the life of Martha Chase, famously known for the Hershey-Chase experiment.
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.