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The Quest to Decode the Brain
The Wall Street Journal - Thinking, moving, seeing—it all seems so easy.
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Diversity of Cortical Neurons Captured in Comprehensive Computer Models
The Allen Institute for Brain Science has produced the first comprehensive, publicly available database of predictive neuron models, along with their corresponding data.
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PSBJ Innovator of the Year: Hacking cells at the Allen Institute
Puget Sound Business Journal - Paul Allen’s open-source research organization gives a head start to scientists fighting disease across the globe
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Researchers reveal new details on aged brain, Alzheimer's and dementia
In a comprehensive analysis of samples from 107 aged human brains, researchers at the Allen Institute for Brain Science, UW Medicine and Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute have discovered details that will help researchers better understand the biological bases for Alzheimer’s disease and dementia in older populations.
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Allen Institute for Brain Science announces 2017 Next Generation Leaders
The Allen Institute for Brain Science announces the newest cohort of Next Generation Leaders: a group of six distinguished early-career researchers who will provide feedback in both formal and informal settings to scientists at the Allen Institute.
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The Wall Street Journal - When do we start panicking? DeepMind, an artificial intelligence company in London, just announced another breakthrough in machine intelligence.
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Annotated guide to the brain: The Allen Institute creates 3-D map of mouse cortex
GeekWire - After years of painstaking work, Seattle’s Allen Institute for Brain Science has completed a digital 3-D map of the mouse cortex
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