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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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Allen Integrated Cell Released Online
Powerful public resource gives researchers a new way to see inside live human cells
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Allen Integrated Cell is a powerful tool for visualizing biology in 3D
Allen Integrated Cell is a new tool that lets anyone visualize cells the way they actually exist in the body.
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Data Stories | Decoding the brain
See how New York high school student Kathleen Esfahany used data from the Allen Brain Observatory to explore the organization and structure of six...
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An ancient pathway that relays visual information in the mammalian brain
Have you ever jumped in fear, and then a split second later realized that a spider (or a spider-shaped shadow) was at the edge of your vision?
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Allen Cell Methods: RNP transfection for gene editing hiPSCs
To ensure researchers have success working with our cell lines, our Maggie Fuqua demonstrates our RNP transfection protocol for gene editing hiPSCs.
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Diversity of Cortical Neurons Captured in Comprehensive Computer Models
The Allen Institute for Brain Science has produced the first comprehensive, publicly available database of predictive neuron models, along with their...
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A new approach to studying the human immune system
See how the Allen Institute for Immunology will work to understand the dynamic balancing act of the human immune system, how it senses friend from foe...
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Meet the Allen Institute for Immunology’s research partners
The Allen Institute for Immunology, a new division of the Allen Institute, launched today.
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The Quest to Unravel The Connectome
Researchers from the Allen Institute for Brain Science are working in collaboration with Baylor College of Medicine, Princeton University and Harvard Medical School.
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Allen Cell Methods: Single cell passaging human iPS cells
To ensure researchers have success working with our human induced pluripotent stem cell lines in their lab, our Amanda Haupt highlights nuanced...
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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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