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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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Researchers around the world use publicly available Ivy Glioblastoma Atlas Project to investigate aggressive brain cancer
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The Allen Institute for Cell Science today launched the Allen Integrated Cell, the world's first predictive and comprehensive 3D model of a live human cell.
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Allen Integrated Cell is a new tool that lets anyone visualize cells the way they actually exist in the body.
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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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The Allen Institute for Immunology, a new division of the Allen Institute, launched today.
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How does the brain love and hate?
Consciousness is how we are able to feel, dream and imagine. And yet — scientists haven't figured out how consciousness definitively works.
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Artificial intelligence can write you a passable love poem and some people even have romantic feelings towards it. But is the feeling mutual?
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It will not only provide an inner window on brain disorders, but may become sophisticated enough to mimic the human brain’s full complexity.
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Dr. Anton Arkhipov has spent the past 12 years at the Allen Institute working to replicate thousands of miles of mouse brain circuitry.
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Dr. Tanya Daigle and Dr. Merit Cudkowicz join the NLS Podcast to reveal a future for ALS research that's closer than most people realize.
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