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🔒 GEO: The eternal riddle of consciousness: How the self comes into the head

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...

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Different populations of cells in the mouse brain, each one targeted with high specificity by one of the many new genetic tools developed at the Allen Institute.

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GeekWire: Researchers develop a new set of genetic tools designed to treat brain diseases

May 21, 2025

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...

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Yi Ding, Ph.D. (right) and Anna Marie Yanny, neuroscientists at the Allen Institute, working in the lab preparing brain cells from Alzheimer's patient donors for analysis through the SEA-AD consortium. Photo by Erik Dinnel / Allen Institute

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The Transmitter: Recruitment issues jeopardize plan for human brain atlas

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...

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GeekWire: Allen Institute launches Cellscapes Moonshot

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.

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May 12, 2025

A groundbreaking international study published in Nature challenges centuries of thinking by proposing that consciousness originates from bodily...

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A colorful abstract representation of consciousness and quantum mechanics. The image features intertwining waves, particles, and energy fields, symbolizing the interconnectedness of mind and matter.

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Reuters: Scientists explore where consciousness arises in the brain

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...

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GeekWire: Study turns up new clues, new questions in the search for the roots of consciousness

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...

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visualization of a brain colorful streamlines and dots

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Scientific American: Where Does Consciousness Come from? Two Neuroscience Theories Go Head-to-Head

Apr 30, 2025

Two leading theories of consciousness went head-to-head—and the results may change how neuroscientists study one of the oldest questions about...

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Apr 30, 2025

Scientists have mapped an unprecedentedly large portion of the brain of a mouse. The cubic millimeter worth of brain tissue represents the largest...

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All of these images show a subset of more than 1,000 of the 120,000 brain cells (neuron + glia) reconstructed in the MICRONS project. Each reconstructed neuron is a different random color. In some of the images, a subset of the neurons have been rendered as glowing in different ways to represent the fact that this dataset includes functional recordings from a subset of neurons.

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CNN: Scientists reveal advance in brain research once thought impossible

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...

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The Times of London: New map of brain hailed as watershed for neuroscience

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...

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Microns image from the Neural Coding team at the Allen Institute for Brain Science. This image shows colorful renderings of neurons and their synaptic connections.

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GeekWire: Scientists unveil new wiring diagram tracing millions of connections in a bit of brain tissue

Apr 14, 2025

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...

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All of these images show a subset of more than 1,000 of the 120,000 brain cells (neuron + glia) reconstructed in the MICRONS project. Each reconstructed neuron is a different random color. In some of the images, a subset of the neurons have been rendered as glowing in different ways to represent the fact that this dataset includes functional recordings from a subset of neurons.

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USA Today: A mouse watched YouTube. Then scientists mapped a tiny piece of its brain.

Apr 14, 2025

Scientists have achieved a feat once believed impossible, constructing the largest functional map of a brain to date, which they believe could...

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Scientists at Allen Institute examining neuronal reconstruction data

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The Guardian: US scientists create most comprehensive circuit diagram of mammalian brain

Apr 14, 2025

The 3D map of a cubic millimetre of mouse brain reveals half a billion synapses and 5.4km of neuronal wiring.

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Scientific American: Biggest Brain Map Ever Shows Mouse Neurons in Stunning Detail

Apr 14, 2025

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...

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Reuters: Scientists produce painstaking wiring diagram of a mouse’s brain

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...

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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.

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