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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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Hundreds of small molecules known as neuromodulators might influence how we learn
New models that capture how the brain retains information could also improve machine learning
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Allen Institute announces Rui Costa as next President and Chief Executive Officer
The Allen Institute today named Rui Costa, D.V.M., Ph.D., as its next president and chief executive officer.
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Allen Institute announces 2021 Next Generation Leaders
Six early-career neuroscientists will participate in unique advisory council for the Institute
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Announcing the Allen Institute for Neural Dynamics, a new neuroscience division of the Allen Institute
New Institute will study how the brain’s circuitry and activity give rise to complex behavior, decision making and memory
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Now in stunning, whole-brain resolution: neurons
A new study traced the 3D shape of more than 1700 complete mouse neurons across the entire brain
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Living brain donors are helping us better understand our own neurons - including those potentially linked to Alzheimer’s disease
As part of an international effort to map cell types in the brain, scientists identified increased diversity of neurons in regions of the human brain that expanded during our evolution
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New insights about evolution of human brain region that controls voluntary movement, including rare, large neurons vulnerable in ALS
Is our brain like that of a mouse or a monkey? New study aims to find our cellular similarities - and key differences
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An ultra detailed map of the brain region that controls movement, from mice to monkeys to humans
Hundreds of neuroscientists built a ‘parts list’ of the motor cortex, laying groundwork to map the whole brain and better understand brain disease...
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These rare human neurons generate electrical signals in two different cellular parts
With brain tissue samples donated by surgery patients come detailed descriptions of certain rare types of human cells - including new findings about...
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What Causes Alzheimer’s? Scientists Are Rethinking the Answer
Scientists have long held onto the idea that sticky blobs of proteins sitting between brain cells are the cause of Alzheimer’s disease. Now, however, many are turning their attention to deeper dysfunctions happening within cells.
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