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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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Human brain cell

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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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New York Times: The Human Brain has a Dizzying Array of Mystery Cells

10.18.2023

Researchers have identified more than 3000 types of brain cells and human-specific features.

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Image of Allen Institute CEO Rui Costa interviewing on television to discuss Open Science Day.

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FOX 13: ‘Open Science Day’ to honor the Allen Institute

09.15.2023

You're invited to celebrate 'Open Science Day' Saturday in Seattle in honor of the Allen Institute's 20th Anniversary. This morning, we're looking at...

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Human and robot fingers meeting and touching at the fingertips

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Scientific American: What Does It ‘Feel’ Like to Be a Chatbot?

09.07.2023

Generative AI has made giant strides toward machine intelligence. Can machine consciousness be far behind? (By Christof Koch)

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Colorful brain image reconstruction

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Technology Networks: The Quest To Discover the Cell Types of the Brain

08.30.2023

The goal is to uncover fundamental knowledge on diverse cell types and their three-dimensional organizational principles in these species’ brains.

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Christof Koch on stage with his hand stretched out to David Chalmers

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New York Times: 2 Leading Theories of Consciousness Square Off

07.01.2023

(Photo credit: Van Royko) Scientists revealed the results of experiments testing how our brains give rise to conscious thought — and ended a...

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