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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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Allen Institute debuts new window into brain cell communication
The Allen Institute today released its first - and the world’s largest - dataset of electrical brain activity gathered using Neuropixels, a new...
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New grants to study the aging brain and build better tools to access brain cells
NIH funding will support an atlas of aging mouse brain cell types and a toolkit to light up specific brain cell types
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Data Stories | How a weight loss drug acts on the brain
Scientists at a pharmaceutical company want to know how the drug they developed for weight management affects the brain. Allen Institute resources are...
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A computational challenge to help developmental biology
Q&A with the scientists and organizers behind a new competition to use machine learning to reconstruct an entire animal’s developmental lineage
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Three collaborative studies launch on ‘OpenScope,’ a shared observatory for neuroscience
2019 projects will tackle Alzheimer’s disease, motion detection, and how the brain processes contextual information
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Allen Cell Methods: Cryopreservation of clonal human iPS cell lines in 96-well plates
To ensure researchers have success working with human induced pluripotent stem cell lines from the Allen Cell Catalog, Amanda Haupt, a research...
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How the gut keeps time - and keeps us healthy
New study identifies brain-intestine circadian signals that could underlie health problems related to night shift work and poor sleep
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Highest-Resolution Human Brain 'Parts List' To Date Lays Road Map to Better Treatments for Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders
Crucial differences discovered in human and mice brain cells could explain why many drugs that work in the lab don’t work in us
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This is what it’s like to donate your brain to science
Casey Schorr underwent invasive surgery to quell the epileptic seizures that were taking over his life. Now, a small piece of his brain tissue is...
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Virtual reality is helping neuroscientists better understand the brain
When Elise Shen goes to work, her morning starts much like that of anyone else with a desk job. She greets her coworkers. She fetches a cup of coffee....
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The Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group Announces Allen Discovery Center at Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School
The Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group announced today the creation of an Allen Discovery Center for Human Brain Evolution at Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, to be led by Christopher A. Walsh, M.D., Ph.D.
Allen Institute for Brain Science releases new data and visualizations for Allen Brain Observatory
The Allen Institute for Brain Science today announced the release of new data and analysis tools for the Allen Brain Observatory: a highly standardized survey of cellular-level neuronal activity in the mouse visual system.
Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group gives $7.5M to studies on epigenetics, aging, evolution
GeekWire - Epigenetics, aging and microbial evolution: Those are the latest words in biomedical research for the Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group, backed up with $7.5 million in awards for five teams of scientists.
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