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Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell and Executive of King County, Dow Constantine, declare Saturday, September 16 "Open Science Day" in honor of Allen Institute's 20th Anniversary

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Friday, September 15, 2023
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The Institute's foundational science, open data, and tools have helped fuel innovations in health and human biology.

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  • The Institute's foundational science, open data, and tools have helped fuel innovations in health and human biology.
  • Paul G. Allen and Jody Allen founded the Allen Institute in 2003 with open science as a core principle.
  • During the last 20 years, hundreds of thousands of researchers have used the Allen Institute's open science resources, such as the Allen Brain Atlas , to help make discoveries on everything from Alzheimer's and autism to kidney disease and cancer.
  • In addition to the Mayor's proclamation, the following Seattle landmarks will light up emerald green (the 20th anniversary gemstone) this weekend to celebrate the Allen Institute's two decades of impact.

Boys Town Publishes Groundbreaking Brain Mapping for Ages 55+

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Wednesday, January 27, 2021
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BOYS TOWN, Neb., Jan. 27, 2021 /PRNewswire/ --Brain atlases, tools that map various areas and centers of the brain, have been around for decades, but until now, most researchers have only used young adult subjects (ages 18 to 35) to create these brain maps.

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  • BOYS TOWN, Neb., Jan. 27, 2021 /PRNewswire/ --Brain atlases, tools that map various areas and centers of the brain, have been around for decades, but until now, most researchers have only used young adult subjects (ages 18 to 35) to create these brain maps.
  • That is what makes the Atlas55+ brain atlas, mapped by the Boys Town Brain Architecture, Imaging and Cognition Lab and its affiliates, so important.
  • Now scientists researching brain and cognition changes in later adulthood have a reliable atlas of the brain networks, created using functional MRIs of healthy individuals ages 55 to 95.
  • Boys Town National Research Hospital is an international leader in research on childhood deafness, vision and communication disorders.

Allen Institute Announces New Phase Of Neuroscience Research

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Monday, April 6, 2020
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SEATTLE, April 6, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- The Allen Institute today announced new phases of research for its largest division, the Allen Institute for Brain Science, as well as a leader hired to direct a new neuroscience-related division of the Institute.

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  • SEATTLE, April 6, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- The Allen Institute today announced new phases of research for its largest division, the Allen Institute for Brain Science, as well as a leader hired to direct a new neuroscience-related division of the Institute.
  • Established in 2003, the Allen Institute for Brain Science has grown to more than 300 researchers and staff working in two broad research programs.
  • In this new phase, the Allen Institute for Brain Science will focus solely on brain cell types and connectivity research.
  • The MindScope Program, which seeks to understand how the brain's neural circuits produce the sense of vision, will also move into a new phase of discovery and will transition out of the Allen Institute for Brain Science to become a separate program of the Allen Institute.

Highest-Resolution Human Brain 'Parts List' To Date Lays Road Map To Better Treatments For Neurological And Psychiatric Disorders

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Wednesday, August 21, 2019
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This categorization of our brain cell types lays the groundwork to improve our understanding of our own brains and to dramatically change how we treat human brain diseases and disorders.

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  • This categorization of our brain cell types lays the groundwork to improve our understanding of our own brains and to dramatically change how we treat human brain diseases and disorders.
  • "The eventual goal will be to develop the complete parts list of the entire human brain.
  • "Many people would assume that the human brain is more complex than the mouse brain," Lein said.
  • If you want to cure human brain diseases, you have to understand the uniqueness of the human brain."

Allen Institute Releases Data From 30,000 Brain Cells In Action

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Thursday, October 11, 2018
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SEATTLE, Oct. 11, 2018 /PRNewswire/ --The Allen Institute for Brain Science, a division of the Allen Institute, today announced new data aimed at helping researchers understand the various types of cells in the brain and how cells compute visual information.

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  • SEATTLE, Oct. 11, 2018 /PRNewswire/ --The Allen Institute for Brain Science, a division of the Allen Institute, today announced new data aimed at helping researchers understand the various types of cells in the brain and how cells compute visual information.
  • New data in the Allen Brain Observatory captures the activity of nearly 30,000 mouse brain cells in the visual cortex, the part of the brain that processes visual information.
  • Taken together, the Allen Brain Observatory data gives researchers the opportunity to explore how the brain functions at a comprehensive level, said Saskia de Vries , Ph.D., Assistant Investigator at the Allen Institute for Brain Science.
  • The Allen Cell Types Database team also added data from more than 30,000 different brain cells.

Allen Institute for Brain Science Database Release Nearly Doubles Mouse Brain Cell Data

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Thursday, June 21, 2018
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SEATTLE, June 21, 2018 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Allen Institute for Brain Science today announced the release of new data, tools to analyze those data and a new web-based 3D viewer to explore anatomy and connections in the mouse brain, the Allen Brain Explorer .

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  • SEATTLE, June 21, 2018 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Allen Institute for Brain Science today announced the release of new data, tools to analyze those data and a new web-based 3D viewer to explore anatomy and connections in the mouse brain, the Allen Brain Explorer .
  • Today's data release almost doubles the number of mouse cells in the Allen Cell Types Database raising the number included from just over 1,000 to slightly more than 1,900 cells as well as adding new neuronal connectivity information to the Allen Mouse Brain Connectivity Atlas and adding more single-cell transcriptomics data from mouse, human and macaque brain cells.
  • As more data accumulate, those classifications provide a richer description of cellular complexity, said David Feng, Ph.D., associate director of technology at the Allen Institute for Brain Science.
  • In addition to the new mouse brain cell data, today's release includes data at the single cell level from human and macaque brains, through collaborative projects with teams at UW Medicine and the Swedish Neuroscience Institute.