Knowra Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory is a nonprofit research and education institution in Cold Spring Harbor, New York, known for genetics, molecular biology, neuroscience, and scientific training.
Molecular biology : The study of biological processes at the molecular level, especially interactions among DNA, RNA, and proteins. The laboratory’s research spans molecular mechanisms underlying genes and cellular function.
Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences : A New York cultural and scientific institution that established a biological laboratory at Cold Spring Harbor in 1890. Its summer biology program was the laboratory’s institutional predecessor.
Barbara McClintock : An American geneticist who discovered that genes can move within chromosomes, later called transposable elements. She conducted pioneering maize genetics research at Cold Spring Harbor.
Bacteriophage : A virus that infects bacteria and replicates within them. Phages became tractable experimental systems for genetics research at the laboratory.
Cancer biology : The study of cancer’s causes, development, and treatment through biological mechanisms. Researchers at the laboratory investigate how genetic changes drive cancer.
Eugenics Record Office : A research organization at Cold Spring Harbor that collected human heredity data and promoted eugenics in the early twentieth century. Its history records a consequential and discredited chapter in the site’s scientific past.
Alfred Hershey : An American bacteriologist whose work with Martha Chase helped establish DNA as genetic material. He directed the Carnegie Institution’s genetics research unit at Cold Spring Harbor.
Maize genetics : The study of inheritance and gene behavior in maize, a model organism in genetics. Maize experiments at Cold Spring Harbor enabled McClintock’s discoveries about chromosome behavior.
Neuroscience : The scientific study of the nervous system, including its structure, function, development, and disorders. The laboratory’s neuroscience program extends its research beyond genetics and cell biology.
William E. Castle : An American geneticist whose work helped establish genetics as an experimental science. Castle led the Eugenics Record Office’s scientific work at Cold Spring Harbor.
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