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Nov 13, 2025
The project aims to unify brain information from dozens of collaborators, species, and samples that span early development to old age.
Nov 12, 2025
This work sits alongside the U.S. NIH BRAIN Initiative Cell Atlas Network to build a complete atlas of human brain cells.
More than 50 scientists came together to identify the key missing data needed to rigorously test theoretical models.
Nov 11, 2025
Dr. Susan Kaech, the newly named EVP of the Allen Institute’s Immunology Moonshot joined ‘ARC Seattle’ to discuss immune memory.
Nov 6, 2025
Scientists have created the most detailed maps yet of how our brains differentiate from stem cells during embryonic development and early life.
The research charts brain development in humans and mice and could help scientists tackle brain-related disorders.
Researchers are closer to making all types of vaccines tailored specifically for certain age groups.
AI was the key that unlocked these brain “neighborhoods.” They could also light the way to curing disorders like Alzheimer’s.
Nov 5, 2025
A new study helps reveal why some vaccines are less effective in older adults than they are in younger people.
Multiple mouse and human brain atlases track the emergence of distinct cell types during development.
The field could soon show when problems like dementia emerge.
Oct 31, 2025
It is flu season and there is some new insight into why vaccines may work less effectively in older adults.
Oct 30, 2025
Researchers have started to build systems of equations meant to simulate some of the cell’s workings.
Scientists at the Allen Institute are learning more about why vaccines can trigger a weaker response in some older adults.
Oct 29, 2025
By profiling over 16 million immune cells after flu vaccination, scientists discovered that memory T cell function changes with age.
Oct 23, 2025
Using spatial transcriptomics and AI, researchers redefined the mouse brain’s geography, uncovering hundreds of new subregions.
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.
