Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) recently welcomed more than 225 high school students to the annual Barcode Long Island (BLI) Student Symposium. The students came from 21 high schools across the Island for the culmination of a program offered through CSHL’s DNA Learning Center (DNALC). Upon their arrival, the students quickly settled into Grace Auditorium,... The post LI high schoolers explore biodiversity at CSHL appeared first on Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.| Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Picture juicy red tomatoes on the vine. What do you see? Some tomato varieties have straight vines. Others are branched. The question is why. New research from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) provides the strongest evidence to date that the answer lies in what are called cryptic mutations. The findings have implications for agriculture and... The post Branching out: Tomato genes point to new medicines appeared first on Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.| Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory