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Nov 13, 2025
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Oct 30, 2025
Researchers have started to build systems of equations meant to simulate some of the cell’s workings.
Oct 14, 2025
Cells are so complex, which is why some researchers are using AI to take new steps towards the goal of a “virtual cell.”
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Sep 17, 2025
Simularium is an innovative online tool designed by the Allen Institute’s Cell Science team that visualizes 4D simulations (animations) of complex...
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Aug 26, 2025
Researchers from Cedars-Sinai are using Allen Institute cell lines to grow organoids in space, which could help design better drugs for disease
Aug 24, 2025
In SpaceX’s latest launch included Allen Institute cells for the first-ever heart and brain organoids to be grown in space.
May 29, 2025
A team at the Allen Institute is embarking on a 10-year project called CellScapes to devise a new language to capture the processes of a cell.
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
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
