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Since 2003, the Allen Institute has pioneered an approach to science that unlocks discoveries and advances our understanding of human health.

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Founder Paul G. Allen believed in answering big, fundamental questions in biology (Big Science). The approach to tackling these questions is rooted in Team Science: where experts across multiple fields leverage unique talents in a coordinated, collaborative way to produce massive amounts of high-quality data. The data, tools, and resources created are freely available (Open Science) to the entire scientific community. Big, Team and Open Science–as practiced by the Allen Institute–accelerates progress, amplifies impact and benefits all.

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Puget Sound Business Journal: Seattle biotech research hub launches with big goals for growth, scientific advances

04.10.2024

The Seattle Hub for Synthetic Biology is developing technology to monitor genomic changes in cells in real time, in turn showing cells' whole...

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Inside Precision Medicine: How Single-Cell Omics is Revolutionizing Our View Of Neurobiology

04.08.2024

(Photo credit: miakievy / Getty Images) The adult human brain is made up of billions of neurons and glial cells. Understanding the diversity of these...

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Scientist at the Seattle Hub for Synthetic Biology explaining how one of their machines works to a crowd

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GeekWire: Inside the new Seattle Hub for Synthetic Biology, which uses DNA to ‘record biology over time’

04.02.2024

(Photo credit: Charlotte Schubert) Researchers opened the doors Monday to the new Seattle Hub for Synthetic Biology, a collaboration between the Allen...

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The Scientist: A Cell-by-Cell Map of the Entire Mouse Brain

04.01.2024

This comprehensive map laid the foundation for the next stage of investigations, such as scaling up efforts to chart nonhuman primates and human...

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ABC News: Scientists take on ‘moonshot’ project mapping the human brain in hopes of fighting disease

03.16.2024

Researchers say this could lead to more targeted treatment approaches.

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Q13 FOX: Learn why with PacSci: How muscles, nerves, and the brain works together

03.12.2024

The Pacific Science Center is celebrating Brain Awareness Week with its BrainFest event on March 16.

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Science Friday: 3,000 Types Of Brain Cells Categorized In Massive Brain Cell Atlas

01.16.2024

In October 2023, an international group of scientists released an impressively detailed cell atlas of the human brain, published in 21 papers in the...

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Rui Costa on a stage presenting to an audience

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STAT: Allen Institute CEO Rui Costa on mapping the brain and paying early-career scientists decent salaries

01.03.2024

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...

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Scientific American: First Atlas of Every Mouse Brain Cell Could Improve Neuro Disease Treatments

12.15.2023

Neuroscientists have unveiled their most comprehensive and detailed map of cell types across the entire mouse brain, delivering the latest results of...

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Quanta Magazine: New Cell Atlases Reveal Untold Variety in the Brain and Beyond

12.15.2023

(Photo credit: Peter Greenwood for Quanta Magazine.) Recent efforts to map every cell in the human body have researchers floored by unfathomable...

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Seattle Times: Research that brings AI into human cells will soon expand in Seattle

12.10.2023

The Seattle Hub for Synthetic Biology, set to open in January, is a result of collaboration between the Allen Institute, the Chan Zuckerberg...

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Researchers at the Allen Institute for Immunology working in the lab

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NPR: Pain, fatigue, fuzzy thinking: How long COVID disrupts the brain

11.16.2023

Torgerson of the Allen Institute was part of a team that studied blood samples from 55 people who had symptoms at least 60 days after a COVID...

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David Artis and Brian S. Kim

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Yahoo News: Allen Frontiers Group awards $10M to set up research center for neuroimmunology

11.10.2023

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...

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KOMO News: Allen Institute awarded 3 grants to map brains in ‘incredible detail’

10.18.2023

The Allen Institute of Brain Science launched three new projects to study the brain at a higher caliber in the hopes of helping human health.

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Wall Street Journal: We Can Now See the Brain Like Never Before

10.18.2023

New, high-resolution map of the brain will help researchers better diagnose and treat diseases.

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Washington Post: New ‘brain atlas’ maps the highly complex organ in dazzling detail

10.18.2023

Photo credit: Leterrior/NeuroCyto Lab (A vast initiative documents the many types of cells, such as the neurons above, that exist in human brains.)

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