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How your immune system changes over time

01.24.2024

Study reveals a type of T cell that vanishes with age and time’s toll on ‘age-resistant’ immune cells

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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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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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Allen Institute for Immunology partners with Lilly to better understand autoimmune disease

07.18.2023

The Institute will use cutting-edge molecular profiling techniques and advanced bioinformatics tools to enable precision medicine in clinical trials...

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Ananda Goldrath to Lead Allen Institute for Immunology

07.06.2023

Dr. Ananda Goldrath will join as the Executive Vice President of the Allen Institute for Immunology in fall of 2023.

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Long COVID’s long fallout

06.15.2023

Patients share their experiences of ongoing, debilitating symptoms nearly 3 years after initial infection 

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Many long COVID patients suffer from persistent inflammation, study finds

06.09.2023

Molecular footprint of the chronic condition could help guide clinical trial and treatment decisions

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A free app on the Human Immune System Explorer will allow users to visualize immunology data using the PALMO platform. This platform was developed by Allen Institute for Immunology scientists to identify differences in gene activity or protein levels between different people or in the same person over long periods of time. The screenshot above shows different kinds of immune cells clustered by their gene activity.

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Allen Institute Developing Gene Panel Based on Longitudinal scRNA-seq Analytics Platform

04.14.2023

In a recent study published in Nature Communications, Allen Institute scientists described how they were able to pinpoint 220 genes as likely...

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SciShots: Tracking immune cells’ digestion

04.03.2023

Scientists are watching cells swallow microscopic beads in the hopes of better understanding the autoimmune disorder rheumatoid arthritis 

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Look in the labs | Immunology

09.14.2022

What makes the human immune system healthy, and what goes wrong in disease?

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Patient Story

Out of Balance | Sarah’s experience with multiple myeloma

06.08.2022

Sarah Kaufmann-Fink was diagnosed with cancer as a college student. 17 years and one relapse later, she’s pushing for more research.

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Science in Sixty | Greg Szeto

06.07.2022

Greg Szeto Ph.D., Associate Investigator at The Allen Institute for Immunology, has a passion for immunology, virology, bioengineering, computer...

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A new open-access portal for human immunology data and tools

06.01.2022

The Human Immune System Explorer offers an inside view into ongoing research on human health and disease

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Q&A with the Allen Institute for Immunology’s first employee

09.11.2021

Ernie Coffey started his career in science with a bang. It was 1997 and he landed a job at one of the institutes participating in the sequencing of...

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Lab Notes | Fire Inside: The quest to understand and prevent rheumatoid arthritis

05.17.2021

In the early '80s, Linda Sloate was a 30-year old mom raising three little kids when she became one of an estimated 20 million people worldwide living...

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New technique explores the ins and outs of our immune cells

05.06.2021

Method that captures 3 different characteristics of individual human cells at once can shed light on aging and disease.

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Palak Genge an Allen Institute researcher

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3 immune mysteries of COVID-19 — and 1 big success story

01.12.2021

The pandemic has revealed how much we really don’t know about our own immune systems, experts say

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Lab Notes | Starved but unable to eat: Life with Crohn’s

12.23.2020

Aldan Beaubien was in high school when a smorgasbord of bagels, cream cheese and apple juice left him in agony. Months later, doctors diagnosed him...

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New study aims to answer pressing COVID-19 question: Why do some die while others don’t even know they are sick?

12.21.2020

Seattle-area research organizations team up for a deep dive into patients’ immune responses to the novel coronavirus; results could contribute to...

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Q&A with a bioinformatics expert on the challenges of studying human immunology

09.28.2020

Xiaojun Li shares the career path that brought him to become Director of Bioinformatics at the Allen Institute for Immunology, and why he’s excited...

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