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From scientific breakthroughs to new open‑source tools, the Allen Institute’s work is reshaping how science is done—and who it’s for. Explore the latest news, stories, and highlights from across our research, partnerships, and open science efforts.
Zapping the right brain cells: The path to improved stimulation
New findings could help scientists develop better ways to treat brain disorders with electrical stimulation.
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SciShots: The Brain’s Cleanup Crew and Paramedics
The shape-shifting microglia play a vital role in maintaining brain health
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Mapping the whole human brain: Allen Institute to lead global collaboration
NIH BRAIN Initiative to fund primate brain atlases, maps of developing mouse brain, coordination and knowledge sharing, and brain function research
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SciShots: The brain’s mysterious, multipurpose immune system
Microglial cells act as the brain’s waste disposal when healthy - can they be manipulated to protect against disease?
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Opening up about open science
In five words, more or less, what does open science mean to you? We asked our talented teams at the Allen Institute who work on openly available...
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Look in the labs | Electron Microscopy Suite
See how researchers at the Allen Institute are using electron microscopy to map intricate connections between brain cells at ultra-high resolution.
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Look in the labs | Immunology
What makes the human immune system healthy, and what goes wrong in disease?
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Look in the labs | Neural Dynamics
How do different brain regions connect and communicate? Researchers at the Allen Institute for Neural Dynamics are 3D imaging whole mouse brains in...
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23 interns, 4 coffee machines, 1 summer: Through the eyes of this year’s cohort of budding science professionals
Allen Institute welcomes interns on-site for the first time since 2019 - these are some of their stories
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From 300,000 mouse neurons, scientists hope to glean how the brain drives behavior
New public dataset captures billions of electrical spikes from brains of animals trained to identify ‘oddball’ photos
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Science Friday: 3,000 Types Of Brain Cells Categorized In Massive Brain Cell Atlas
In October 2023, an international group of scientists released an impressively detailed cell atlas of the human brain, published in 21 papers in the journals Science, Science Advances and Science Translational Medicine.
STAT: Allen Institute CEO Rui Costa on mapping the brain and paying early-career scientists decent salaries
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 it’s just one of several ambitious projects the Allen Institute is helping tackle.
Scientific American: First Atlas of Every Mouse Brain Cell Could Improve Neuro Disease Treatments
Neuroscientists have unveiled their most comprehensive and detailed map of cell types across the entire mouse brain, delivering the latest results of a six-year-long scientific effort in which Seattle’s Allen Institute has played a leading role.
Quanta Magazine: New Cell Atlases Reveal Untold Variety in the Brain and Beyond
(Photo credit: Peter Greenwood for Quanta Magazine.) Recent efforts to map every cell in the human body have researchers floored by unfathomable diversity, with many thousands of subtly different types of cells in the human brain alone.
Seattle Times: Research that brings AI into human cells will soon expand in Seattle
The Seattle Hub for Synthetic Biology, set to open in January, is a result of collaboration between the Allen Institute, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and the University of Washington that aims to build new technologies to record the history of our bodies’ cells.
Yahoo News: Allen Frontiers Group awards $10M to set up research center for neuroimmunology
The neuroimmunology research center will be led by Brian Kim of Mount Sinai and David Artis of Weill Cornell Medicine. They’ll bring together a multidisciplinary team to trace interactions between the nervous system and the immune system that occur at sites distant from the brain.
