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Oct 31, 2025
It is flu season and there is some new insight into why vaccines may work less effectively in older adults.
Oct 30, 2025
More than 2 decades ago researchers started to build systems of equations meant to simulate some of the cell’s workings. Now, they have progressed...
Flu season is fast-approaching! And with it comes the annual push by public health leaders to encourage us to roll up our sleeves to get the latest...
Oct 29, 2025
Oct 23, 2025
Using spatial transcriptomics and AI, researchers redefined the mouse brain’s geography, uncovering hundreds of new subregions.
Award-winning immunologist Susan Kaech is the new executive vice president of the Allen Institute’s Immunology Moonshot, an initiative that...
Oct 16, 2025
We’ve all heard the advice: “trust your gut.” But what does that really mean — and is there science behind it? Dr. Hongkui Zeng, Executive...
Oct 14, 2025
A human cell is a Rube Goldberg machine like no other, full of biological chain reactions that make the difference between life and death....
Oct 13, 2025
Scientists may be one step closer to a new therapy that could 'fix' the faulty genes at play in people with brain disorders such as autism and...
Oct 7, 2025
Using a ChatGPT-like AI model, scientists have created a new map of the mouse brain that captures previously uncharted areas of the organ in...
Scientists say an artificial intelligence program that they compare to ChatGPT has helped them create one of the most detailed maps of the mouse brain...
Oct 6, 2025
A new study in Nature Neuroscience has identified a specific population of neurons in the visual cortex—dubbed IC-encoders—and shows their direct...
Science appears to be a step closer to understanding how the brain generates hallucinations, raising hopes that someday they might be preventable,...
Sep 24, 2025
You could one day be spared from ever experiencing the debilitating symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis (RA)—thanks to a new discovery that could help...
Millions of people around the world suffer from rheumatoid arthritis, an autoimmune disorder that causes debilitating joint swelling and pain....
Sep 19, 2025
The regular Short Wave science roundup covers mysterious red dots in space, the neurons behind optical illusions and a study of octopus arms.
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.
