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04.03.2024
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04.10.2024
Allen Institute and Pacific Science Center partnership kicks off with a cerebral celebration
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The Seattle Hub for Synthetic Biology is developing technology to monitor genomic changes in cells in real time, in turn showing cells' whole...
04.08.2024
(Photo credit: miakievy / Getty Images) The adult human brain is made up of billions of neurons and glial cells. Understanding the diversity of these...
Scientists used advanced, single-cell genomics and spatial mapping technologies to reveal this complex and rich cellular landscape.
04.02.2024
(Photo credit: Charlotte Schubert) Researchers opened the doors Monday to the new Seattle Hub for Synthetic Biology, a collaboration between the Allen...
04.01.2024
This comprehensive map laid the foundation for the next stage of investigations, such as scaling up efforts to chart nonhuman primates and human...
03.16.2024
Researchers say this could lead to more targeted treatment approaches.
03.12.2024
The Pacific Science Center is celebrating Brain Awareness Week with its BrainFest event on March 16.
03.06.2024
Newest member of the research network will bring large-scale data collection and cutting-edge analysis to help discover new therapies for disease.
02.29.2024
Allen Distinguished Investigators aim to stretch cancer cells like Silly Putty to reveal their elusive nutrients.
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02.14.2024
Heart cells hit a tiny “gym” to help scientists screen for toxic cancer drugs
01.24.2024
Study reveals a type of T cell that vanishes with age and time’s toll on ‘age-resistant’ immune cells
Annual Report
01.18.2024
20 years ago, the Allen Institute began with an idea to do science differently, to take on some of the biggest, hardest problems in biology through...
01.16.2024
In October 2023, an international group of scientists released an impressively detailed cell atlas of the human brain, published in 21 papers in the...
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01.04.2024
Celebrating 20 years of Allen Imapact
01.03.2024
Mapping the billions of cells that make up the brain is a task mammoth enough to keep hundreds of researchers across continents busy for years. But...
12.15.2023
Neuroscientists have unveiled their most comprehensive and detailed map of cell types across the entire mouse brain, delivering the latest results of...
(Photo credit: Peter Greenwood for Quanta Magazine.) Recent efforts to map every cell in the human body have researchers floored by unfathomable...
12.13.2023
Rewards don’t just reinforce a specific action—they quickly change the whole pattern of how we behave
High-resolution atlas charts neural neighborhoods for more than 5,300 cell types
