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11.21.2023
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Research funding will support four projects focused on extracellular vesicles and three on sex hormones
In the News
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...
11.13.2023
A new study sheds light on how our brains perceive — or fail to perceive — what we see
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...
11.09.2023
Multidisciplinary research center to define, map, and understand the health consequences of interactions between the nervous system and the immune...
11.01.2023
The award, which recognizes outstanding career and research achievements, is the highest honor bestowed by the Society for Neuroscience.
10.30.2023
The annual honor recognizes outstanding success in academia or industry for research that has had a major impact in the field of immunology.
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.
New, high-resolution map of the brain will help researchers better diagnose and treat diseases.
Photo credit: Leterrior/NeuroCyto Lab (A vast initiative documents the many types of cells, such as the neurons above, that exist in human brains.)
Researchers have identified more than 3000 types of brain cells and human-specific features.
10.12.2023
You have 3,000+ different kinds of brain cells, and more insights from the largest human brain cell atlases created to date
10.09.2023
Election to the Academy is considered one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine and recognizes leaders who have demonstrated...
09.26.2023
NIH BRAIN Initiative-funded research will lay the groundwork to map entire brains in incredible detail
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...
This honor marks Allen Institute’s 20th Anniversary
09.07.2023
Generative AI has made giant strides toward machine intelligence. Can machine consciousness be far behind? (By Christof Koch)
08.30.2023
The goal is to uncover fundamental knowledge on diverse cell types and their three-dimensional organizational principles in these species’ brains.
08.29.2023
Ignored for a hundred years, comb jelly research is back in business
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08.17.2023
Where are we with long COVID? Researchers at the Allen Institute and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center are working to understand the science behind this...
