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How Hollywood’s latest animation technique is shedding new light on cell biology

Oct 28, 2019

A method developed to make more realistic computer graphics now forms the backbone of new 3D cell visualization tool

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Scientists find mouse neurons that are unique to male or female brains

Oct 17, 2019

Study linking behaviors with cells in an ancient section of the brain also pinpointed a neuron tied to social fear

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Allen Institute debuts new window into brain cell communication

Oct 14, 2019

The Allen Institute today released its first — and the world’s largest — dataset of electrical brain activity gathered using Neuropixels, a new...

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Data Stories | How a weight loss drug acts on the brain

Oct 7, 2019

Scientists at a pharmaceutical company want to know how the drug they developed for weight management affects the brain. Allen Institute resources are...

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A computational challenge to help developmental biology

Oct 1, 2019

Q&A with the scientists and organizers behind a new competition to use machine learning to reconstruct an entire animal’s developmental lineage

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A computational challenge to help developmental biology

Oct 1, 2019

Q&A with the scientists and organizers behind a new competition to use machine learning to reconstruct an entire animal’s developmental lineage

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Allen Institute announces 2019 Next Generation Leaders

Sep 25, 2019

Six early-career neuroscience researchers will participate in unique advisory council

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Three collaborative studies launch on ‘OpenScope,’ a shared observatory for neuroscience

Sep 24, 2019

2019 projects will tackle Alzheimer’s disease, motion detection, and how the brain processes contextual information

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How the gut keeps time — and keeps us healthy

Sep 18, 2019

New study identifies brain-intestine circadian signals that could underlie health problems related to night shift work and poor sleep

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Rebecca Hodge, Ph.D., a scientist at the Allen Institute for Brain Science, holds a frozen slice of a postmortem human brain donated to research. A new effort led by the Allen Institute aims to map the entire human brain at single-cell resolution. Photo by Erik Dinnel / Allen Institute

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Highest-Resolution Human Brain ‘Parts List’ To Date Lays Road Map to Better Treatments for Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders

Aug 21, 2019

Crucial differences discovered in human and mice brain cells could explain why many drugs that work in the lab don’t work in us

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