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Allen Institute announces 2024 Next Generation Leaders

12.19.2024

Fostering collaboration and innovation from emerging leaders in bioscience 

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Julie Harris

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Tech Moves: Allen Institute names new VP

12.17.2024

Julie Harris has been appointed vice president of The Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group at the Seattle-based Allen Institute.

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Charting the Human Immune Health Atlas

12.17.2024

Every individual’s immune system is distinct and changes over time, affecting their health and disease response. Recently, researchers mapped human...

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Allen Institute names Julie Harris, Ph.D., as new Vice President of The Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group

12.17.2024

Harris is a leader in non-profit, biotech and academic science sectors with a passion for accelerating early discovery efforts in service of human...

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A Decade of Discovery at the Allen Institute for Cell Science

12.11.2024

Celebrating 10 Years of Impact

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Allen Institute CFO Marjorie Thomas Announces Retirement

12.10.2024

Thomas has served as the Institute’s CFO since May 2017

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Canadian Ph.D. student, Sam Mestern, wins first MapMySpikes challenge

12.09.2024

The Allen Institute for Brain Science’s MapMySpikes challenge aimed to address a key challenge in neuroscience by making connections between...

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The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation Awards $9 Million to new Allen Distinguished Investigators

12.03.2024

Research funding will support six projects focused on how organelles within the cell communicate and cellular membrane form, function, and behavior.

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The Transmitter: Expanding set of viral tools targets almost any brain cell type

11.19.2024

Harmless viruses that encase short noncoding DNA elements called enhancers enable cell-type-specific gene delivery across the central nervous system...

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NPR: Timeline shows what happens to different brain cells as Alzheimer’s progresses

11.07.2024

An analysis of brains at various stages of Alzheimer's found that neurons called inhibitory neurons are the first to be affected by the disease.

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Fox News: New Alzheimer’s research reveals ‘quiet’ phase of the disease, before symptoms appear

10.18.2024

Researchers led by the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle and University of Washington Medicine have identified cellular changes in the...

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Kyle Travaglini and Mariano Gabitto, two male scientists, take a look at brain tissue samples on a clear slide in a lab at the Allen Institute.

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Newsweek: Alzheimer’s Hidden ‘Early’ Brain Damage Phase Revealed by Neuroscientists

10.17.2024

Alzheimer's disease damages the brain before any symptoms begin to appear, new research suggests. This is part of a new two-step model of Alzheimer's...

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New study traces Alzheimer’s ‘pathology clock’ at unprecedented cellular resolution

10.14.2024

Scientists map Alzheimer’s advance at fine cellular level and identify some of the first neurons lost to disease, providing potential targets for...

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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,...

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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...

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Global effort to map the human brain releases first data

10.01.2024

The BICAN Rapid Release Inventory provides early access to comprehensive single-cell data, aiming to accelerate brain research.

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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

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Summer Workshop on the Dynamic Brain: Ten years of collaboration and community

09.24.2024

A two-week summer camp for neuroscience students building bridges, surfacing insights, and teaching cutting-edge computational methods

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New AI method sheds light on brain cell diversity

09.23.2024

Researchers develop a machine learning approach to classify brain cells more precisely, which could aid studies into their role in health and disease.

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Nature’s Palette: A tale of science and art

09.19.2024

Two sisters, from seemingly different worlds, have joined forces in a unique collaboration to visualize the healthy immune system across age.

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