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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 study traces Alzheimer's 'pathology clock' at unprecedented cellular resolution
Scientists map Alzheimer’s advance at fine cellular level and identify some of the first neurons lost to disease, providing potential targets for...
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Global effort to map the human brain releases first data
The BICAN Rapid Release Inventory provides early access to comprehensive single-cell data, aiming to accelerate brain research.
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Summer Workshop on the Dynamic Brain: Ten years of collaboration and community
A two-week summer camp for neuroscience students building bridges, surfacing insights, and teaching cutting-edge computational methods
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New AI method sheds light on brain cell diversity
Researchers develop a machine learning approach to classify brain cells more precisely, which could aid studies into their role in health and disease.
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Nature’s Palette: A tale of science and art
Two sisters, from seemingly different worlds, have joined forces in a unique collaboration to visualize the healthy immune system across age.
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Allen Institute for Immunology unveils landmark Human Immune Health Atlas
Comprehensive dataset maps the landscape of healthy immune cells across the human lifespan
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Nature’s Palette: A tale of science and art
Two sisters, from seemingly different worlds, have joined forces in a unique collaboration to visualize the healthy immune system across age.
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No lab? No problem for this neuroscience student
How open science tools helped a personal journey into Alzheimer’s research
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Allen Institute for Cell Science and New York Stem Cell Foundation join forces to advance inclusive cellular biology
Partnership combines advanced cellular tagging with ethnically diverse stem cell lines, addressing critical gaps in biomedical research
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Allen Institute scientists awarded $1 million to research gene therapy for Dravet syndrome
Washington Research Foundation grant will accelerate gene therapy development for the rare, devastating disorder.
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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.
