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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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SciShots: neurons in crisp, clear detail
Electron microscopy reveals the stunning 3D shapes of mouse visual neurons
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SciShots: a crown of neurons
Brain-wide neuron tracing of cells in the mouse claustrum, a mysterious structure that’s highly connected to the rest of the brain
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SciShots: a neuron’s love connection
A specialized team of neuroscientists at the Allen Institute spend their days painstakingly tracing neurons’ complex branching structures
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A map of all our brains’ blood vessel cells finds new clues to Alzheimer’s disease
Scientists release the first cell-by-cell atlas of the human blood-brain barrier.
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SciShots: a cell’s fate
Synthetic biology is helping scientists understand development
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The Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group announces 23 new Allen Distinguished Investigators
$15.5M in research funding will support cutting-edge projects in mammalian synthetic biology, the neuroscience of under-studied animals, and tiny...
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SciShots: cellular scaffolding
Computer animation techniques light up cells’ inner workings
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SciShots: a star-shaped human brain cell
Scientists catch a glimpse of a rare kind of human astrocyte
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SciShots: an assortment of heart cells
Scientists are capturing the wide visual diversity of human cells
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SciShots: mini-brains
Organoids are miniature versions of organs grown in the lab from stem cells - in many cases, from human stem cells.
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Billionaire Paul Allen Donates $100 Million To Fund A 'Manhattan Project' For Human Disease
Paul Allen, the Microsoft cofounder turned billionaire philanthropist, will donate $100 million to create a research center tasked with investigating the inner workings of human cells. The ultimate goal is to deepen our understanding of how diseases emerge and how they can be treated and prevented.
Biologists Get $100 Million From Billionaire Paul Allen To Investigate Cells
With a gift of $100 million from billionaire philanthropist Paul G. Allen, scientists will embark on an effort to understand how cells work and how they malfunction in disease. Leaders of this new endeavor announced the launch of the Seattle-based Allen Institute for Cell Science today at the annual meeting of the American Society for Cell Biology in Philadelphia.
Billionaire Paul Allen donates $100m to new ‘industrial scale’ effort to understand human cells
Microsoft co-founder Paul G. Allen is donating $100 million of his fortune to launch what he calls an “industrial-scale” effort to understand the basic building block of all living things: the cell.
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