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University of Washington study will survey Latinos in the state with COVID-19

Feb 20, 2023

A University of Washington study will survey the impact long COVID has had on Latino communities.

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Asian Pacific America: Neuroscientist Receives Prestigious Award

Feb 12, 2023

Asian Pacific America: Hongkui Zeng is the Director of the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle.

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Scientist unlock the secrets of what human cells really look like

Jan 11, 2023

Not all cells are the same.

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Interior Design of Human Cells is Mapped for the First Time, a Breakthrough That Could Revolutionize Healthcare

Jan 7, 2023

Scientists have just debuted a new way to see how cells organize themselves, shedding modern light on the building blocks of life.

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What Causes Alzheimer’s? Scientists Are Rethinking the Answer

Dec 8, 2022

Scientists have long held onto the idea that sticky blobs of proteins sitting between brain cells are the cause of Alzheimer’s disease. Now,...

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A Huge New Data Set Pushes the Limits of Neuroscience

Oct 3, 2022

The Allen Institute’s release includes recordings from a whopping 300,000 mouse neurons. Now the challenge is figuring out what to do with all that...

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Seattle researchers lead ambitious project to map the human brain

Sep 26, 2022

We could be on the cusp of breakthrough treatments for brain diseases, from Alzheimer's Disease to depression and ADHD. Local scientists from the...

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NIH launches the next stage of its ‘human genome project’ for the brain

Sep 22, 2022

The National Institutes of Health on Thursday announced more than $600 million in fresh funding for an expansive and ongoing push to unravel the...

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UW Medicine pathologist C. Dirk Keene, M.D., points out large grooves in the surface of a brain of someone who died from Alzheimer's disease and donated their brain to research. In a healthy brain, these folds would nestle right up against each other but in Alzheimer's, neuron death leads to noticeable shrinkage in many parts of the brain. Keene is part of a collaborative effort to find the cellular roots of Alzheimer's. Photo by Erik Dinnel / Allen Institute

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Ask Us Anything: Alzheimer’s Disease Brain Cell Atlas

Sep 1, 2022

Scientists from the Allen Institute and UW Medicine opened up about the Seattle Alzheimer’s Disease Brain Cell Atlas on Reddit

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Keene points out brain slices from an 83-year old man who had died of Alzheimer's disease and donated his brain to research. The slices are preserved so that scientists can study how brain structures have changed in the disease. Photo by Erik Dinnel / Allen Institute

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In search of Alzheimer’s drug targets, Allen Institute builds massive brain cell map

Aug 2, 2022

The initiative, called the Seattle Alzheimer’s Disease Brain Cell Atlas (SEA-AD), has released some of its first findings at the Alzheimer’s...

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