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Exploring the Complexities of Our Minds and Bodies

We are leaders in large-scale, high quality research with a commitment to share our findings and data openly with the world.

Our teams delve into the mechanics of the brain, probe the structures and functions of our cells, investigate how our immune systems fight disease, and pursue scientific ideas that are on the frontiers of human understanding.

Our Programs

MindScope Program

We study the brain in action to witness and learn how it engages with the physical world through our senses.
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High-resolution brain-wide imaging of axonal arbors to examine connectivity in defined cell types.

Allen Institute for Neural Dynamics

We aim to understand the brain’s activity by studying how animals interpret their environment to make decisions.
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Allen Institute for Cell Science

Building a comprehensive picture of how human cells are organized and change in different states of health and disease.
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Allen Institute for Brain Science

Explores the complexity of the brain to catalyze breakthroughs related to what makes us human.
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Allen Institute for Immunology TEA-seq data - a trimodal assay that simultaneously measures transcriptomics (scRNA-seq), epitopes, and chromatin accessibility (scATAC-seq) from thousands of single cells

Allen Institute for Immunology

Dedicated to unraveling the complexities of the human immune system.
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The Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group

Committed to expanding our collective understanding of bioscience by pushing the boundaries of possibility.
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ISSCR 2023 - Allen Institute for Cell Science

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Recent News

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SciShots: How to feed mini-organs

05.17.2023

Scientists are making lab-grown mini-organs more lifelike by adding blood vessels
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Genes reveal surprising overlaps in brain diseases and disorders

05.15.2023

Scientists find patterns in how disease-related genes switch on in the brain 
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Hongkui Zeng elected to the National Academy of Sciences

05.02.2023

Zeng was chosen for her contributions to understanding the cells and connections of the brain.
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Recent Publications

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Impaired dendritic spike generation in the Fragile X prefrontal cortex is due to loss of dendritic sodium channels

02.01.2023

Patients with Fragile X syndrome, the leading monogenetic cause of autism, suffer from impairments related to the prefrontal cortex, including working...
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A whole-brain monosynaptic input connectome to neuron classes in mouse visual cortex

02.01.2023

Identification of structural connections between neurons is a prerequisite to understanding brain function. Here we developed a pipeline to...
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Brain Data Standards - A method for building data-driven cell-type ontologies

01.24.2023

Large-scale single-cell 'omics profiling is being used to define a complete catalogue of brain cell types, something that traditional methods struggle...
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