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The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation Awards $10.5 Million to new Allen Distinguished Investigators

11.21.2023

Research funding will support four projects focused on extracellular vesicles and three on sex hormones 

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NPR: Pain, fatigue, fuzzy thinking: How long COVID disrupts the brain

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...

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Delving into the science of a mystifying optical illusion: visual masking

11.13.2023

A new study sheds light on how our brains perceive — or fail to perceive — what we see

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Yahoo News: Allen Frontiers Group awards $10M to set up research center for neuroimmunology

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...

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The Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group Announces Allen Discovery Center for Neuroimmune interactions at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

11.09.2023

Multidisciplinary research center to define, map, and understand the health consequences of interactions between the nervous system and the immune...

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Society for Neuroscience to honor Michael Stryker, Allen Institute board member, with 2023 Ralph W. Gerard Prize in Neuroscience

11.01.2023

The award, which recognizes outstanding career and research achievements, is the highest honor bestowed by the Society for Neuroscience.

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Cancer Research Institute awards Ananda Goldrath, Ph.d., with the 2023 Frederick W. Alt Award

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.

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KOMO News: Allen Institute awarded 3 grants to map brains in ‘incredible detail’

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.

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Wall Street Journal: We Can Now See the Brain Like Never Before

10.18.2023

New, high-resolution map of the brain will help researchers better diagnose and treat diseases.

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Washington Post: New ‘brain atlas’ maps the highly complex organ in dazzling detail

10.18.2023

Photo credit: Leterrior/NeuroCyto Lab (A vast initiative documents the many types of cells, such as the neurons above, that exist in human brains.)

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New York Times: The Human Brain has a Dizzying Array of Mystery Cells

10.18.2023

Researchers have identified more than 3000 types of brain cells and human-specific features.

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What makes us human? Detailed cellular maps of the entire human brain reveal clues

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

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Hongkui Zeng, Ph.D., Executive Vice President, Director of the Allen Institute for Brain Science, elected to National Academy of Medicine

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...

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Projects launch to map brain connections in mouse and macaque

09.26.2023

NIH BRAIN Initiative-funded research will lay the groundwork to map entire brains in incredible detail

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FOX 13: ‘Open Science Day’ to honor the Allen Institute

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...

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Scientific American: What Does It ‘Feel’ Like to Be a Chatbot?

09.07.2023

Generative AI has made giant strides toward machine intelligence. Can machine consciousness be far behind? (By Christof Koch)

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Technology Networks: The Quest To Discover the Cell Types of the Brain

08.30.2023

The goal is to uncover fundamental knowledge on diverse cell types and their three-dimensional organizational principles in these species’ brains.

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Comb jellies gives scientists hints of our nervous system’s past

08.29.2023

Ignored for a hundred years, comb jelly research is back in business

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Lab Notes | The mystery of long COVID

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...

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