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May 21, 2025
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May 29, 2025
A 75-person team at Seattle nonprofit Allen Institute is embarking on a 10-year project called CellScapes to devise a new language using mathematics...
May 16, 2025
A 75-person team at Seattle nonprofit Allen Institute is embarking on a project called CellScapes, using mathematics to crack the code of life.
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May 15, 2025
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CellScapes introduces a groundbreaking approach that will combine cutting-edge imaging and powerful computer models to track how cells change,...
Dec 11, 2024
Celebrating 10 Years of Impact
Sep 4, 2024
Partnership combines advanced cellular tagging with ethnically diverse stem cell lines, addressing critical gaps in biomedical research
Jun 9, 2024
Disease-specific cells developed by the Allen Institute for Cell Science offer a new window into the world's most common genetic heart condition.
Jun 5, 2024
(Photo credit: Fierce Biotech) By helping scientists make generalizations about the disease by unearthing the common denominator between mutations,...
Jun 4, 2024
New tools will advance study—and hopefully treatment—of common genetic heart conditions.
Developing a “disease in a dish” to help treat disease in the body.
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May 30, 2024
Reaching new heights, stem cells from the Allen Institute for Cell Science were flown into space for the first time ever.
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Feb 14, 2024
Heart cells hit a tiny “gym” to help scientists screen for toxic cancer drugs
Jun 5, 2023
The stem-cell study is part of a series of NASA-funded experiments led by researchers at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.
The groundbreaking experiment is part of a private mission to the International Space Station.
Jan 4, 2023
Database of 200,000 cell images yields new mathematical framework to understand our cellular building blocks
Sep 16, 2022
Microglial cells act as the brain’s waste disposal when healthy — can they be manipulated to protect against disease?
Sep 12, 2022
Cells are the building blocks of life.
Aug 26, 2022
Allen Institute welcomes interns on-site for the first time since 2019 — these are some of their stories
Jun 30, 2022
Scientists are using tumor “spheroids” to study glioblastoma, a deadly brain cancer
Jun 10, 2022
Scientists are studying the wide range of “normal” within human cells
