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Brain Health accelerator to transform our understanding of brain disorders and develop new treatments
The global collaborative research initiative will initially target Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, Huntington’s disease, ALS, and Lewy body dementia
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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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Q&A with the Allen Institute for Immunology’s first employee
Ernie Coffey started his career in science with a bang. It was 1997 and he landed a job at one of the institutes participating in the sequencing of...
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Sped-up evolution may have molded the human brain by slowing neuron growth
Quickly evolving stretches of DNA unique to humans are important for brain development, a new study finds
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Brain scientists unveil wiring diagram containing 200,000 cells and nearly half billion connections in tiny piece of a mouse's brain
Detailed map captures 3D shapes of neurons and their synapses in stunning detail and is open to community for neuroscience and machine learning...
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To understand human cells, scientists look beyond genes
Deep dive into detailed images of human heart cells uncovers a disconnect between gene expression and cell structure
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Science in Sixty | Shannon Reynolds
Figuring out how to transport live brain tissue from the operating room to the lab is challenging to say the least. In our latest Science in Sixty,...
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Study maps all the types of neurons across two major structures of the mouse brain
Cell-type parts list of the mouse neocortex and the hippocampal formation yields new information about how the mammalian brain evolved and develops
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Science in Sixty | Brian Lee
Brian Lee, Ph.D., Senior Scientist at the Allen Institute for Brain Science, shares his journey from rebellious teen to crisis counselor to neuroscientist.
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Allen Institute for Brain Science awarded ~$100 million to lead global collaborations that will build comprehensive atlases of brain cell types
National Institutes of Health funding expands work to identify and catalog the building blocks of the brain, and creates global center for data sharing
Cool Jobs: Puzzling over proteins to study life and death
Ru Gunawardane's team is studying how proteins help our cells divide, move and communicate. These scientists also are making their maps of living cells and other information available to researchers elsewhere around the world.
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