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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 Institute Awarded $8.7 million NIH Transformative Research Grant to Study Synapses
Grant to establish interdisciplinary consortium recognizes power of synapse diversity studies to change the landscape of biomedical research
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Allen Institute Receives $4.75 Million BRAIN Initiative Grant
Funding from the NIH will support the publicly accessible Allen Institute Cell Types Database
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Publication in Nature Showcases Most Comprehensive Wiring Diagram of the Mammalian Brain To Date
Landmark publication comes on the heels of completion of the Allen Mouse Brain Connectivity Atlas in March 2014
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Paul G. Allen Commits $300M to Expand the Allen Institute for Brain Science to Drive Toward a Complete Understanding of How the Brain Works
Institute announces ambitious 10-year plan to tackle the most complex questions in brain science with a continued commitment to open data sharing
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Allen Institute for Brain Science announces first comprehensive gene map of the human brain
The Allen Human Brain Atlas reveals more than 90 percent similarity among humans and details genes at work throughout the brain to advance scientific...
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Allen Institute for Brain Science launches Allen Human Brain Atlas with first data set charting genes at work in the adult human brain
Initial installment of data and tools will be expanded and enhanced in a series of future releases
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Allen Institute for Brain Science launches new atlas resource and enhances others with new data and tools
Free online resources foster scientific discovery and collaboration
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Allen Institute for Brain Science unveils world's first genome-wide spinal cord atlas
Landmark atlas holds vast potential to accelerate life-changing spinal cord research
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Autism Speaks spearheads collaborative grant with the Allen Institute for Brain Science and leading autism expert to analyze frontal lobe microstructure in autism
Research may provide insight into the biological causes of autism
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Allen Institute for Brain Science launches three new landmark atlas projects focusing on the human brain, developing brain, and spinal cord
Projects have vast potential to help scientists worldwide gain new insight into neurological diseases and disorders
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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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