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May 21, 2025
What causes subjective feelings and thoughts to arise in a lump of matter? Neuroscientist Christof Koch has found a surprising explanation for this...
Scientists say they’ve put together a new kind of molecular toolkit that could eventually be used to treat a variety of brain diseases, possibly...
May 19, 2025
A lack of new brain donors may stop Brain Atlas research from meeting its goal to pair molecular and cellular data with the functional organization of...
May 16, 2025
A 75-person team at Seattle nonprofit Allen Institute is embarking on a project called CellScapes, using mathematics to crack the code of life.
May 12, 2025
A groundbreaking international study published in Nature challenges centuries of thinking by proposing that consciousness originates from bodily...
May 5, 2025
Consciousness is at the center of human existence, the ability to see, hear, dream, imagine, feel pain or pleasure, dread, love and more. But where...
Apr 30, 2025
Seven years after they started, neuroscientists have published the results of a landmark study that was designed to determine which theory of human...
Two leading theories of consciousness went head-to-head—and the results may change how neuroscientists study one of the oldest questions about...
Scientists have mapped an unprecedentedly large portion of the brain of a mouse. The cubic millimeter worth of brain tissue represents the largest...
Apr 15, 2025
Using a speck of mouse brain matter the size of a grain of sand, scientists have created the first precise, three-dimensional map of a mammal’s...
Apr 14, 2025
In 1979 the Nobel prize-winning biologist Francis Crick marvelled at the human brain’s capacity to explore itself. Yet, even as he celebrated its...
Researchers say they’ve accomplished a feat that was said to be impossible 46 years ago: mapping the cells in a cubic millimeter of brain tissue and...
Scientists have achieved a feat once believed impossible, constructing the largest functional map of a brain to date, which they believe could...
The 3D map of a cubic millimetre of mouse brain reveals half a billion synapses and 5.4km of neuronal wiring.
Researchers have created the largest and most detailed wiring diagram of a mammalian brain to date, by mapping cells in a cubic millimetre of a...
Apr 11, 2025
Neuroscientists have produced the largest wiring diagram and functional map of a mammalian brain to date using tissue from a part of a mouse's...
Founder Paul G. Allen believed in answering big, fundamental questions in biology (Big Science). The approach to tackling these questions is rooted in Team Science: where experts across multiple fields leverage unique talents in a coordinated, collaborative way to produce massive amounts of high-quality data. The data, tools, and resources created are freely available (Open Science) to the entire scientific community. Big, Team and Open Science–as practiced by the Allen Institute–accelerates progress, amplifies impact and benefits all.
