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From scientific breakthroughs to new open‑source tools, the Allen Institute’s work is reshaping how science is done—and who it’s for. Explore the latest news, stories, and highlights from across our research, partnerships, and open science efforts.
AI BioDesign accelerator combines experimental biology and artificial intelligence to learn nature’s design rules
Researchers from the Allen Institute, University of Washington, and Fred Hutch Cancer Center, supported by Fund for Science and Technology, will build open AI models, datasets, and tools to accelerate biological design for health, sustainability, and other global challenges
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OpenScope: The First Shared Observatory for Neuroscience
Standardized platform open to researchers around the world aims to replicate the successes of large astronomy observatories
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Data Stories | Untuned but not irrelevant
Researcher Joel Zylberberg studies how the brain encodes and computes visual information.
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CellProfiler goes 3D
This month, researchers from Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and the Allen Institute for Cell Science published an article in the journal PLOS...
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A mouse called TIGRE
A new platform for genetically engineered laboratory animals is allowing neuroscientists to ask - and answer - new kinds of questions about the brain.
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Allen Institute for Brain Science Database Release Nearly Doubles Mouse Brain Cell Data
The Allen Institute for Brain Science today announced the release of new data, tools to analyze those data and a new web-based 3D viewer to explore...
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New fluorescently tagged cell lines available, including first ‘silent’ tagged line
The Allen Cell Collection now contains five new fluorescently tagged stem cell lines, including the first cells in the collection with a tag specific...
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Picture a cell: New 3D visual guide can help
Last month, Allen Institute for Cell Science researchers debuted the Visual Guide to Human Cells, a 3D interactive tool that aims to help scientists see what a human cell looks like.
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New technique captures view of 10,000 genes' activity in the moment
The technique, which the researchers dubbed seqFISH, detects a very transient form of RNA, the go-between molecule that bridges the gap between a gene...
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Human brain tissue stays alive in the lab for three days
For much of his career, neuroscientist Jonathan Ting, Ph.D., studied rodent brains. But because his research relies on live neurons, those studies...
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The brain cells that drive schizophrenia
A new study led by researchers at the Karolinska Institutet in Solna, Sweden, in collaboration with scientists from the Allen Institute and others, has pinpointed specific cell types in the brain that may contribute to schizophrenia.
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KIRO Radio: Breakthroughs in Synthetic Biology
(Interview starts 11:35 in) Troy McDiarmid from the Seattle Center for Synthetic Biology describes the innovative research underway to create cellular recorders that will track the full life histories of human cells to better understand disease.
Puget Sound Business Journal: Seattle biotech research hub launches with big goals for growth, scientific advances
The Seattle Hub for Synthetic Biology is developing technology to monitor genomic changes in cells in real time, in turn showing cells' whole histories and the genetic causes of disease.
Inside Precision Medicine: How Single-Cell Omics is Revolutionizing Our View Of Neurobiology
(Photo credit: miakievy / Getty Images) The adult human brain is made up of billions of neurons and glial cells. Understanding the diversity of these cells and their distinctive gene-regulatory mechanisms is crucial for determining how the brain works and, in turn, for developing treatments for neurologic disorders
GeekWire: Inside the new Seattle Hub for Synthetic Biology, which uses DNA to ‘record biology over time’
(Photo credit: Charlotte Schubert) Researchers opened the doors Monday to the new Seattle Hub for Synthetic Biology, a collaboration between the Allen Institute, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and the University of Washington.
Science Friday: 3,000 Types Of Brain Cells Categorized In Massive Brain Cell Atlas
In October 2023, an international group of scientists released an impressively detailed cell atlas of the human brain, published in 21 papers in the journals Science, Science Advances and Science Translational Medicine.
STAT: Allen Institute CEO Rui Costa on mapping the brain and paying early-career scientists decent salaries
Mapping the billions of cells that make up the brain is a task mammoth enough to keep hundreds of researchers across continents busy for years. But it’s just one of several ambitious projects the Allen Institute is helping tackle.
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