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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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New research to understand how the brain handles optical illusions and makes predictions
3 new projects launch on OpenScope, a shared neuroscience observatory at the Allen Institute
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SciShots: The labyrinthian protein factory of the cell
Graphics software for microscope imagery lights up the endoplasmic reticulum
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SciShots: How the brain plugs leaks
A delicate molecular dance maintains the blood-brain barrier, protecting the brain while allowing transport of necessary resources
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Why is the human brain so difficult to understand? We asked 4 neuroscientists.
Thoughts, memories, sensations - why are we still in the dark about how they work?
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SciShots: Gentle imaging for delicate cells
Examining fine cellular details for longer time periods
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SciShots: Modeling for the masses
New tool helps scientists see how E. coli finds its center
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Online simulations offer scientists new views inside cells
Simularium Viewer provides interactive visual outputs of computational, biological models
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SciShots: Rare kraken cell line released
Illuminating structures in Magnumlolligo glacies cells with unprecedented detail
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SciShots: One happy cell (nucleus)
Explorations of the nuclear envelope, the thin membrane surrounding a cell’s chromosomes, reveal unexpected wrinkles
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A day in the (neuroscience) life: OpenScope
Scientists on the OpenScope team help share the Allen Institute’s ‘observatory of the mind’ with the larger scientific community
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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.
