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Cytiva licenses Allen Institute’s advanced machine learning technology to develop new cell imaging techniques
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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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Chasing Life with Dr. Sanjay Gupta
When Lionel Messi and fellow stars of the FIFA World Cup enter "the zone," what's happening in their brains? Today, neuroscientist Dr. Rui Costa tells Sanjay how you can think like a top athlete and find your own "flow state."
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Allen Institute launches $400M effort to turn brain atlas lessons into medicines
A Seattle-based nonprofit is launching an initiative to translate its knowledge into drug development for neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer’s.
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The Brain Health Accelerator Seeks to Revolutionize Neuroscience Research
The Allen Institute launched a new project to accelerate the mechanistic understanding of neurodegenerative diseases and develop potential therapies.
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Allen Institute sets sights on treatments for five brain diseases
The Brain Health Accelerator program aims to harness single-cell transcriptomics and cell-type-specific genetic tools to develop treatments for Alzheimer’s, Huntington’s and Parkinson’s diseases, Lewy body dementia and ALS.
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This scientist learned he has a devastating brain disease. He set out to cure it.
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Paul Allen’s bioscience institute gets a refreshingly playful new brand
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