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12.21.2022
Highlights include our 2022 annual report, our latest Lab Notes podcast, newly announced Allen Distinguished Investigators, and more.
10.06.2022
Highlights include the first major open Alzheimer's dataset release, an Open Science Week recap, our newly announced efforts to map the whole human...
07.15.2022
Highlights include: a podcast episode with Christof Koch on building consciousness meter, a patient's story with multiple myeloma, exploring why the...
04.28.2022
Highlights include: a new Lab Notes podcast on why we don't understand the brain, new research about how neurons connect, day-in-the-life features of...
03.02.2022
Highlights include: our 2021 annual report, announcing our incoming President and CEO Rui Costa, 23 Allen Distinguished Investigators announced,...
12.16.2021
Highlights include: a new editorial that argues more diverse models are needed for basic and disease human research, a new article on gene expression...
12.15.2021
Highlights include: A new institute launched, an ultra-detailed map of the motor cortex, new funding for Allen Discovery Centers, a new cohort of Next...
12.02.2021
Highlights include: $20M in funding to support frontier science, how sped-up evolution may have molded the human brain, upcoming events and more.
07.15.2021
Highlights include a new study that takes a deep dive into detailed images of human heart cells, new cell lines and plasmids, upcoming tutorials, and...
07.14.2021
Highlights include: a new study that maps all types of neurons across two major structures of the mouse brain, new Science in Sixty videos, and more.