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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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Podcast

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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CNBC: New research sheds light on cause behind long COVID

06.16.2023

Researchers from the Allen Institute and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center have discovered that an overactive inflammatory response could be at the root...

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Mallory Rath, a long covid patient, posing during a hike.

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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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Data heat map from long covid research by the Allen Institute for Immunology

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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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Long COVID Now Looks like a Neurological Disease, Helping Doctors to Focus Treatments

03.01.2023

The causes of long COVID, which disables millions, may come together in the brain and nervous system

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University of Washington study will survey Latinos in the state with COVID-19

02.20.2023

A University of Washington study will survey the impact long COVID has had on Latino communities.

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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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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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Could treatments aimed at Alzheimer’s disease help combat COVID-19?

08.05.2020

A team of cardiology researchers had a creative idea for a new way to treat dementia. Now they think it could help coronavirus patients too.

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Lab Notes | A wearable diagnostic for COVID-19

04.23.2020

What if there were a face mask that could tell you you’re infected with coronavirus before you ever show symptoms?

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20 Years of Impact | 2023 Annual Report

01.18.2024

20 years ago, the Allen Institute began with an idea to do science differently, to take on some of the biggest, hardest problems in biology through...

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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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Lab Notes | SCANning for coronavirus

09.23.2020

The SCAN study launched to track Covid-19 in the Seattle area led by Allen Discovery Center leader Dr. Jay Shendure

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Lab Notes | Taming the beast

08.05.2020

When the first COVID-19 cases began arriving at hospitals int he U.S., doctors nicknamed the illness "The Beast" because of the way it attacked the...

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Scientists are working on a face mask that detects coronavirus

04.23.2020

Q&A with James Collins, Ph.D., a bioengineer who is developing a diagnostic face mask that signals if the wearer is infected with COVID-19

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Science-ing from home

03.26.2020

Nature - In the first of two articles about laboratory closures triggered by COVID-19, scientists affected by the shutdowns outline the tools they are...

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