Cold Spring Harbor News Archives

A research team has found a mutation on human chromosome 16 increases risk for schizophrenia by more than eight-fold for some individuals.

Modern humans and Neanderthals had sex across the species barrier, according to a leading geneticist who is overseeing a project to compare their genomes.

A leading geneticist has determined that modern man and Neanderthals had sex across the species barrier, according to the Times Online .

An international team of researchers led by geneticist Jonathan Sebat, Ph.D., of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory , has identified a mutation on human chromosome 16 that substantially increases risk for schizophrenia.

Dr. Samuel Stanley listens as he's introduced as the next president of Stony Brook University on May 5, 2009.

In animals, this particular patterning strategy of the body axis is termed segmentation, and it is observed in both vertebrates and invertebrates.

If you’re looking to be part of this year’s premier A-List fall event, then the picturesque Village of Cold Spring Harbor is the place to be on Saturday (raindate Sunday) at noon for the 3rd Annual Howl-Ween Parade and Celebration. It’s pets in costumes.

Systems-biological research is hence seen as a multistage process, beginning with the comprehensive identification and quantitative analysis of individual system components and their networked interactions and leading to the ability to control existing systems toward the desired state and design new ones based on an understanding of structure and ...

Here's some of the Long Island representatives at this year's CMJ: PT WALKLEY The Cold Spring Harbor native will be on the "Specific Business Concepts for the Modern Day Music Artist" panel at 12:30 p.m. Tuesday.

Corsets and parasols were made using whale bone, as were hair pins. Whale oil fueled the 19th century lamps.

Physorg.com -- Researchers from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory have uncovered a large, new cache of genes that act as built-in barriers against cancer.

U.S. scientists say they have discovered a group of genes that act as barriers against cancer development.

On a visit to Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Thursday afternoon, New York Governor David A. Paterson pledged his continuing support for stem cell research after receiving a briefing from a panel of Long Island scientists engaged in projects involving stem cells.

This week, it was announced that Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory alumna Carol W. Greider, Ph.D., and her colleagues, Elizabeth H. Blackburn and Jack W. Szostak , won the 2009 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine.

CSHL has received over $2.3 million from New York State for several stem cell-related projects, as well as a special microscope and a training program for stem cell researchers.

Suffolk Legis. Jon Cooper (D-Lloyd Harbor) facing a challenge for a sixth term from Republican Frank Stalzer of Huntington.

Featured Article Main Category: Diabetes Also Included In: Nutrition / Diet ; Biology / Biochemistry Article Date: 07 Oct 2009 - 9:00 PDT An international team of researchers found that antioxidants commonly promoted as being good for our health may speed up early onset of Type 2 diabetes by mopping up Reactive Oxygen Species that may play a ...

Ada Yonath, one of the winners of this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry, talked the U.S. government into spending $4.7 million on her research that eventually involved a Dead Sea salt-loving microbe.

Back row, from left to right: Feroza Mehta; Customer Service Representative, Michael N. Vittorio; President & CEO of The First National Bank of Long Island, Frederick Uhl; American Legion Front Row, from left to right: John Grasso; Executive Vice President, Pat LaGrasta; Head Teller, Elizabeth Materia; Market Manager/Branch Manager, Keith DeCuir; ...

Police on Long Island are investigating after the body of a man was found lying in the street near a Long Island Rail Road station.

Last week the Times ran a story by Andrew Pollack, Benefit and Doubt in Vaccine Additive , that covered some of the ground I trod in my Slate story, " To Boost or Not to Boost: The United States' swine flu vaccines will leave millions worldwide unprotected .

As most good students realize, repeated studying produces good memory. Those who study a lot realize, further, that what they learn tends to be preserved longer in memory if they space out learning sessions between rest intervals.

Exterior view of Lawrence Middle School, 195 Broadway, Lawrence, NY. Identified as "Lakewood" From the report: Researchers describe this elementary district as the most racially and ethnically diverse they have studied, and also as successful in maintaining high test scores among all groups.