New York Times: After a Decade, Scientists Unveil Fly Brain in Stunning Detail

10.03.2024

(Photo credit: Tyler Sloan for FlyWire, Princeton University) Scientists have mapped out how 140,000 neurons are wired in the brain of the fruit fly,...

Nature: Largest brain map ever reveals fruit fly’s neurons in exquisite detail

10.02.2024

(Photo credit: Tyler Sloan and Amy Sterling for FlyWire, Princeton University) “This is a huge deal,” says Clay Reid, a neurobiologist at the...

NewScientist: Map of the immune system changing with age may help optimise vaccines

09.27.2024

Our immune cells change a lot as the decades progress, which could explain why we become more susceptible to certain conditions

San Diego Union-Tribune: UC San Diego gets $10 million to study how climate change affects marine animals

09.11.2024

Scientists will look especially closely at how such warming impacts brain development

Inside Philanthropy: Another Major Science Funder Dives into How Climate Change Affects Animal Brains

09.11.2024

Scientists at the new Allen Discovery Center will seek to identify the mechanisms behind resilience or vulnerability among species and populations as...

Inc.: 5 Tips for Neuroscience Majors According to a Leading Expert

09.10.2024

(Photo credit: Getty/Inc.) Inc. spoke with Kaitlyn Casimo, a doctor and neuroscientist who leads the education and engagement program at the Allen...

KOMO News: Seattle scientists travel to Rwanda to help build STEM network with students

08.26.2024

The goal is to diversify neuroscience, empower local students interested in STEM, and increase accessibility to science by bringing it to communities...

GeekWire: Allen Institute’s OpenScope team stirs up a brainstorm to study the mind’s mysteries

07.28.2024

The Allen Brain Observatory to play the same role in neuroscience that the Hubble Space Telescope plays in astronomy or that the Large Hadron Collider...

Axios: Scientists get a new tool to study a common genetic heart condition

06.09.2024

Disease-specific cells developed by the Allen Institute for Cell Science offer a new window into the world's most common genetic heart condition.

Fierce Biotech: Allen Institute’s cell lines could lead to new drugs for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

06.05.2024

(Photo credit: Fierce Biotech) By helping scientists make generalizations about the disease by unearthing the common denominator between mutations,...

GeekWire: Allen Institute and Seattle Children’s to study inflammatory bowel disorder in search of cure

05.14.2024

Technology Networks: BARSeq Reveals the Brain Is Like a Pointillism Painting

04.29.2024

(Photo credit: Technology Networks/iStock) BARseq reveals that peripheral inputs can alter the identity of cortical neurons during development.

KIRO Radio: Breakthroughs in Synthetic Biology

04.23.2024

(Interview starts 11:35 in) Troy McDiarmid from the Seattle Center for Synthetic Biology describes the innovative research underway to create cellular...

Puget Sound Business Journal: Seattle biotech research hub launches with big goals for growth, scientific advances

04.10.2024

The Seattle Hub for Synthetic Biology is developing technology to monitor genomic changes in cells in real time, in turn showing cells' whole...

Inside Precision Medicine: How Single-Cell Omics is Revolutionizing Our View Of Neurobiology

04.08.2024

(Photo credit: miakievy / Getty Images) The adult human brain is made up of billions of neurons and glial cells. Understanding the diversity of these...

GeekWire: Inside the new Seattle Hub for Synthetic Biology, which uses DNA to ‘record biology over time’

04.02.2024

(Photo credit: Charlotte Schubert) Researchers opened the doors Monday to the new Seattle Hub for Synthetic Biology, a collaboration between the Allen...