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Prevail Through Knowledge: A History of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory is published to mark the Laboratory's 125th anniversary. Written by historian Jan Witkowski, Executive Director of the Laboratory's Banbury Center, it's a compact, accessible book that will appeal to friends and neighbors of the Laboratory and anyone interested in the development of biomedical science and biotechnology through the twentieth century to the present day. At Cold Spring Harbor, two independent research centers born in the light of Darwin's insights emerged fifty years later as a single institution that would cradle another revolution, the new science of molecular biology, and progress to world renown in research and professional education. It's a remarkable story and the path of progress was neither simple nor assured. The book traces half a century of changes in name, leadership, governance, and financial fortune. And scientific missteps, most notoriously in eugenics, as well as ...