Cold Spring Harbor

proper noun

A hamlet in the town of Huntington, Suffolk County, New York, United States.

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Meanings

proper noun
  1. A hamlet in the town of Huntington, Suffolk County, New York, United States.
  2. abbreviationellipsisEllipsis of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.

    And when researchers began to realize that it would be possible to decipher the entire sequence of genes in the human genome, Dr. Watson called them to a meeting at Cold Spring Harbor to discuss it.

    2025 November 7, Cornelia Dean, “James D. Watson, Co-Discoverer of the Structure of DNA, Is Dead at 97”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 07 Nov 2025
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