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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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OpenScope: The First Shared Observatory for Neuroscience
Standardized platform open to researchers around the world aims to replicate the successes of large astronomy observatories
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Data Stories | Untuned but not irrelevant
Researcher Joel Zylberberg studies how the brain encodes and computes visual information.
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CellProfiler goes 3D
This month, researchers from Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and the Allen Institute for Cell Science published an article in the journal PLOS...
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A mouse called TIGRE
A new platform for genetically engineered laboratory animals is allowing neuroscientists to ask - and answer - new kinds of questions about the brain.
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Allen Institute for Brain Science Database Release Nearly Doubles Mouse Brain Cell Data
The Allen Institute for Brain Science today announced the release of new data, tools to analyze those data and a new web-based 3D viewer to explore...
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New fluorescently tagged cell lines available, including first ‘silent’ tagged line
The Allen Cell Collection now contains five new fluorescently tagged stem cell lines, including the first cells in the collection with a tag specific...
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Picture a cell: New 3D visual guide can help
Last month, Allen Institute for Cell Science researchers debuted the Visual Guide to Human Cells, a 3D interactive tool that aims to help scientists see what a human cell looks like.
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New technique captures view of 10,000 genes' activity in the moment
The technique, which the researchers dubbed seqFISH, detects a very transient form of RNA, the go-between molecule that bridges the gap between a gene...
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Human brain tissue stays alive in the lab for three days
For much of his career, neuroscientist Jonathan Ting, Ph.D., studied rodent brains. But because his research relies on live neurons, those studies...
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The brain cells that drive schizophrenia
A new study led by researchers at the Karolinska Institutet in Solna, Sweden, in collaboration with scientists from the Allen Institute and others, has pinpointed specific cell types in the brain that may contribute to schizophrenia.
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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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