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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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Allen Integrated Cell Released Online
Powerful public resource gives researchers a new way to see inside live human cells
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Allen Integrated Cell is a powerful tool for visualizing biology in 3D
Allen Integrated Cell is a new tool that lets anyone visualize cells the way they actually exist in the body.
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Data Stories | Decoding the brain
See how New York high school student Kathleen Esfahany used data from the Allen Brain Observatory to explore the organization and structure of six...
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An ancient pathway that relays visual information in the mammalian brain
Have you ever jumped in fear, and then a split second later realized that a spider (or a spider-shaped shadow) was at the edge of your vision?
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Allen Cell Methods: RNP transfection for gene editing hiPSCs
To ensure researchers have success working with our cell lines, our Maggie Fuqua demonstrates our RNP transfection protocol for gene editing hiPSCs.
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Diversity of Cortical Neurons Captured in Comprehensive Computer Models
The Allen Institute for Brain Science has produced the first comprehensive, publicly available database of predictive neuron models, along with their...
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A new approach to studying the human immune system
See how the Allen Institute for Immunology will work to understand the dynamic balancing act of the human immune system, how it senses friend from foe...
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Meet the Allen Institute for Immunology’s research partners
The Allen Institute for Immunology, a new division of the Allen Institute, launched today.
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The Quest to Unravel The Connectome
Researchers from the Allen Institute for Brain Science are working in collaboration with Baylor College of Medicine, Princeton University and Harvard Medical School.
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Allen Cell Methods: Single cell passaging human iPS cells
To ensure researchers have success working with our human induced pluripotent stem cell lines in their lab, our Amanda Haupt highlights nuanced...
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Scientific American: First Atlas of Every Mouse Brain Cell Could Improve Neuro Disease Treatments
Neuroscientists have unveiled their most comprehensive and detailed map of cell types across the entire mouse brain, delivering the latest results of a six-year-long scientific effort in which Seattle’s Allen Institute has played a leading role.
Quanta Magazine: New Cell Atlases Reveal Untold Variety in the Brain and Beyond
(Photo credit: Peter Greenwood for Quanta Magazine.) Recent efforts to map every cell in the human body have researchers floored by unfathomable diversity, with many thousands of subtly different types of cells in the human brain alone.
Seattle Times: Research that brings AI into human cells will soon expand in Seattle
The Seattle Hub for Synthetic Biology, set to open in January, is a result of collaboration between the Allen Institute, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and the University of Washington that aims to build new technologies to record the history of our bodies’ cells.
Yahoo News: Allen Frontiers Group awards $10M to set up research center for neuroimmunology
The neuroimmunology research center will be led by Brian Kim of Mount Sinai and David Artis of Weill Cornell Medicine. They’ll bring together a multidisciplinary team to trace interactions between the nervous system and the immune system that occur at sites distant from the brain.
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