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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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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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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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Meet the Scientist Bringing Gene Editing to Life: An Interview With Jennifer Doudna
Newsweek - About 10 years ago, scientists at a yogurt laboratory in Denmark noticed a peculiar feature in a bacterial genome.
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Neuroscience: Big brain, big data
Nature - As big brain-mapping initiatives go, Taiwan's might seem small.
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Consciousness rising: Christof Koch on the brain and artificial intelligence
Pasatiempo - Christof Koch has spent much of the past three decades working to locate human consciousness in the electrochemical interactions among neurons.
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Neanderthals Were People, Too
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New Scientist - Bioelectrical signals direct blobs of cells to transform into any part of the body. Harnessing it can create freakish animals with two heads - and may spark a medical revolution
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Allen Institute for Cell Science Releases Gene Edited Human Stem Cell Lines
Scientists at the Allen Institute for Cell Science used CRISPR/Cas9 technology to insert fluorescent tags for major cellular structures into human induced pluripotent stem cells. Unlike typical methods which flood the cell with fluorescent protein, these highly precise tags show exactly when and where the structures are at various stages in the cell’s lifecycle.
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How Paul Allen's Foray Into Gene Editing Could Benefit Human Health
Today the Allen Institute for Cell Science is releasing a set of gene-edited stem cells to the public that are “pluripotent,” meaning they have the ability to turn into any tissue or organ in the body.
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