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Jun 11, 2025
Applications are open for the SeaBridge postdoc program with the Seattle Hub for Synthetic Biology, training 40 fellows at UW, Fred Hutch, Seattle...
Jun 2, 2025
Neuroscientists can now make precise genetic tweaks to the neurons that are most affected by brain diseases such as Parkinson’s, Huntington’s and...
May 30, 2025
Researchers from nearly 30 universities and institutions across North America have teamed up to create an arsenal of new biological tools that will...
May 29, 2025
A team from the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle, claims the disease develops in only two distinct phases, or ‘epochs’. The first,...
Gene delivery systems can target specific brain cells, a breakthrough that could lead to treatments for Parkinson's, Alzheimer's and other...
A 75-person team at Seattle nonprofit Allen Institute is embarking on a 10-year project called CellScapes to devise a new language using mathematics...
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...
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.
