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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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Mapping the brain's visual world on psychedelics, texture and time
New OpenScope projects aim to pioneer the future of neuroscience
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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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Allen Institute for Cell Science releases first disease cell line collection to accelerate discovery
Developing a “disease in a dish” to help treat disease in the body.
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Allen Institute for Cell Science launches first disease-specific cell line collections
New tools will advance study-and hopefully treatment-of common genetic heart conditions.
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Quantum mechanics and the puzzle of human consciousness
Exploring how quantum processes in the brain might shape our experiences.
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Next Generation Leaders program returns for 2024
Applications now open for an engaging, collaborative opportunity for emerging scientific leaders.
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Hope for kids with IBD: New trial aims to improve treatment
Allen Institute for Immunology and Seattle Children's Research Institute launch study to unravel the molecular mysteries of pediatric IBD.
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Exploring the mind’s mysteries with Christof Koch
In his latest book, Koch navigates ‘the sheer wonder and miracle of existence and that we are conscious at all.’
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How vision sculpts the developing brain
Nature study reveals the key role vision plays in shaping the brain’s mosaic of neurons.
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First-ever BrainFest inspires young minds at Pacific Science Center
Allen Institute and Pacific Science Center partnership kicks off with a cerebral celebration
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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.
