Solving the mysteries of bioscience
Foundational Science Fuels Breakthroughs
Inspiring Next-Generation Scientists
Exploring human cells – the building blocks of our bodies – to holistically and dynamically predict and understand health and disease.
Goals and Approach
Using advanced technologies to study the cell and its components as an integrated system, teams at the Allen Institute for Cell Science are working to understand a cell’s history and predict its future by looking at its present makeup and state. A deep holistic understanding of dynamic cellular behavior will ultimately help scientists better understand and predict disease.
Understanding how cells grow and develop, and being able to predict their future path, is essential for understanding human health.
In service of that aim, the Allen Institute for Cell Science generates fluorescently tagged human induced pluripotent stem cell lines connected to important cellular processes and makes these lines openly available to the scientific community. These teams also generate dynamic, high-resolution 3D images of live cells and develop predictive models and analysis tools that increase understanding of this vital building block of life.
Meet our advisors
May 16, 2025
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Dec 11, 2024
Nature Methods
Mar 28, 2025
Peter Bajcsy, Sreenivas Bhattiprolu, Katy Börner, Beth A. Cimini, Lucy Collinson, Jan Ellenberg, Reto Fiolka, Maryellen Giger, Wojtek Goscinski, Matthew Hartley, Nathan Hotaling, Rick Horwitz, Florian Jug, Isabel Kemmer, Anna Kreshuk, Emma Lundberg, Aastha Mathur, Kedar Narayan, Shuichi Onami, Anne L. Plant, Fred Prior, Jason R. Swedlow, Adam Taylor, Antje Keppler
microPublication Biology
Jan 01, 2025
Blair Lyons, Saurabh S. Mogre, Karthik Vegesna, Jessica S. Yu, Mark Hansen, Aadarsh Raghunathan, Graham T. Johnson, Eran Agmon, Matthew Akamatsu
bioRxiv: The Preprint Server for Biology
Aug 13, 2024
Ritvik Vasan, Alexandra J. Ferrante, Antoine Borensztejn, Christopher L. Frick, Nathalie Gaudreault, Saurabh S. Mogre, Benjamin Morris, Guilherme G. Pires, Susanne M. Rafelski, Julie A. Theriot, Matheus P. Viana
Jun 11 - 14, 2025
Understanding life. Advancing health.
The Allen Institute is an independent nonprofit bioscience research institute aimed at unlocking the mysteries of biology.
We are leaders in large-scale research that transforms our understanding of health and disease and shapes how science is conducted worldwide.
