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Allen Integrated Cell is a powerful tool for visualizing biology in 3D

May 9, 2018

Allen Integrated Cell is a new tool that lets anyone visualize cells the way they actually exist in the body.

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The Allen Integrated Cell launches

May 9, 2018

The Allen Institute for Cell Science today launched the Allen Integrated Cell, the world's first predictive and comprehensive 3D model of a live...

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Sculpting Nature’s Masterpiece: The Big Brain

Apr 11, 2018

What was behind our ancestor's painting? More than their landscape or their culture, it was the "big brain" developing in humans that opened this path...

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An ancient pathway that relays visual information in the mammalian brain

Mar 9, 2018

Have you ever jumped in fear, and then a split second later realized that a spider (or a spider-shaped shadow) was at the edge of your vision?

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Diversity of Cortical Neurons Captured in Comprehensive Computer Models

Mar 1, 2018

The Allen Institute for Brain Science has produced the first comprehensive, publicly available database of predictive neuron models, along with their...

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Windy Ho (right) and Michael Clark (center) prepare a living piece of human brain, removed during surgery and donated by the patient to science, for experiments at the Allen Institute. Brian Lee, Ph.D. (left), a scientist in the electrophysiology lab at the Allen Institute, looks on in the background. Photo by Erik Dinnel / Allen Institute

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New frontiers in aging research

Jan 26, 2018

Telomeres are caps at the end of DNA that protect our chromosomes, similar to the plastic tips that prevent the ends of shoelaces from fraying.

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Allen Discovery Center uncovers the role of accumulating mutations in the brain

Jan 18, 2018

Researchers at the Allen Discovery Center at Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard University have published a technical tour-de-force that may...

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The Quest to Unravel The Connectome

Dec 1, 2017

Researchers from the Allen Institute for Brain Science are working in collaboration with Baylor College of Medicine, Princeton University and Harvard...

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Allen Cell Methods: Single cell passaging human iPS cells

Nov 30, 2017

To ensure researchers have success working with our human induced pluripotent stem cell lines in their lab, our Amanda Haupt highlights nuanced...

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New on the Allen Cell Explorer

Nov 29, 2017

With 19 cell lines targeting 16 key structures, the Allen Cell Collection now characterizes many of the organelles in human stem cells. Using...

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