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One of the most intriguing questions about the human brain is also one of the most difficult for neuroscientists to answer: What sets our brains apart...
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Neuroscientists and open data experts have teamed up to make a new, and large set of mouse brain data publicly available and open for analysis on the...
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To ensure researchers have success working with our gene-edited human induced pluripotent stem cell lines in their lab, our Jacqueline Smith...
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See how Stanford electrical engineering student Amy Christensen used data from the Allen Brain Observatory to study how visual information is coded...
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Standardized platform open to researchers around the world aims to replicate the successes of large astronomy observatories
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Researcher Joel Zylberberg studies how the brain encodes and computes visual information.
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The Allen Cell Collection now contains five new fluorescently tagged stem cell lines, including the first cells in the collection with a tag specific...
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Last month, Allen Institute for Cell Science researchers debuted the Visual Guide to Human Cells, a 3D interactive tool that aims to help scientists see what a human cell looks like.
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New technique captures view of 10,000 genes' activity in the moment
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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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To Keep Up With AI, We’ll Need High-Tech Brains
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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The first data from a repository of living human brain cells
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