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Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
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17602 |
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NATURAL SCIENCE
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7 / 1990 |
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Joan Kostick Andrews
Joan Kostick Andrews is a free-lance writer based in
Washington. D.C. |
Some 35 miles from Manhattan, on a secluded inlet on Long Island's North Shore, in a setting resembling a romantic village with Victorian frame houses - rather than typical working laboratory buildings - researchers are moving closer to solving mysteries such as the cause of cancer and the dynamics of the human brain.
The place is Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. With a staff of 460, including 123 scientists, and a $27 million annual budget, the lab is small compared with some research institutions. However, in terms of stature in the field of biology, the lab has been and continues to be on the cutting edge of biological discovery.
Nobel laureate James D. Watson, the laboratory's director various conferences, meetings, and postgraduate training programs hosted by the lab. From its inception in July 1890, the laboratory has been a place where major objectives are courageously undertaken with no regard to its size.
Cold Spring Harbor has a "feel" that goes beyond the physical layout - a sense of place integral to understanding what this particular lab is all about.
A Short History
There have been many changes at Cold Spring Harbor over the years. The first inhabitants of the harbor were the Matinecock Indians of the Algonquin tribe. They named the region Wawepex - meaning "at the good little water place." Later settlers in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries used the glacial springs located there to provide power for various
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