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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 grants to study the aging brain and build better tools to access brain cells
NIH funding will support an atlas of aging mouse brain cell types and a toolkit to light up specific brain cell types
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Data Stories | How a weight loss drug acts on the brain
Scientists at a pharmaceutical company want to know how the drug they developed for weight management affects the brain. Allen Institute resources are...
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A computational challenge to help developmental biology
Q&A with the scientists and organizers behind a new competition to use machine learning to reconstruct an entire animal’s developmental lineage
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Three collaborative studies launch on ‘OpenScope,’ a shared observatory for neuroscience
2019 projects will tackle Alzheimer’s disease, motion detection, and how the brain processes contextual information
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Allen Cell Methods: Cryopreservation of clonal human iPS cell lines in 96-well plates
To ensure researchers have success working with human induced pluripotent stem cell lines from the Allen Cell Catalog, Amanda Haupt, a research...
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How the gut keeps time - and keeps us healthy
New study identifies brain-intestine circadian signals that could underlie health problems related to night shift work and poor sleep
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Highest-Resolution Human Brain 'Parts List' To Date Lays Road Map to Better Treatments for Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders
Crucial differences discovered in human and mice brain cells could explain why many drugs that work in the lab don’t work in us
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This is what it’s like to donate your brain to science
Casey Schorr underwent invasive surgery to quell the epileptic seizures that were taking over his life. Now, a small piece of his brain tissue is...
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Virtual reality is helping neuroscientists better understand the brain
When Elise Shen goes to work, her morning starts much like that of anyone else with a desk job. She greets her coworkers. She fetches a cup of coffee....
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Simulations of life - in health and disease
Across many areas of biology, researchers are turning to virtual simulations to help ask and answer important questions.
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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.
