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LLS, The Mark Foundation for Cancer Research and The Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group Join Forces to Advance Leading Edge Cancer Research
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To understand our brains, scientists need to know their components. This theme underlies a growing effort in neuroscience to define the different building blocks of the brain — its cells.
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In the brain, connections are key. A mouse brain contains around a billion synapses, or physical connections between neurons, and our own brains house approximately 100 trillion.
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The data-driven model sheds new light on mitosis, a critical process for human cells and a pivotal driver of cancer
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Ever since Alyssa Clements can remember, she’s wanted to be a doctor. Her father is a chiropractor in south New Jersey, and his business partner was...
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The Allen Institute for Brain Science, a division of the Allen Institute, has debuted a new data exploration tool for brain cell type data.
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Think of the shape of life. Living creatures have forms ranging from a tiny rod-shaped bacterium, to a wrinkled, tusked behemoth of an elephant, to a...
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Scientists everywhere are struggling with data. Paul Meijer, Ph.D., Director of Software Development at the newly launched Allen Institute for...
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Allen Institute for Cell Science researchers have developed a new technique that will enable better understanding of human heart muscle cells.
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Researcher Randy Ellis studies computational neuroscience and addiction. Ellis uses the Allen Brain Observatory dataset in his work to find new ways...
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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
The New York Times Magazine - New research shows they shared many behaviors that we long believed to be uniquely human. Why did science get them so wrong?
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Grow with the flow: How electricity kicks life into shape
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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