Allen Cell Types Database updated with new data and models
The Allen Institute for Brain Science has released additional data and
computer models of cell activity for inclusion in the Allen Cell Types
Database: a publicly available tool for researchers to explore and
understand the building blocks of the brain.
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Brain Waves: Engineering big science
See how engineers at the Allen Institute for Brain Science make our big science happen in our latest Brain Waves video.
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Seeing eye to eye with cell types in the retina
Allen Institute for Brain Science and Harvard University researchers
surveyed 88 Cre driver lines in the retina, uncovering the locations of
cells expressing specific genes in the retina, and showing where those
cells project into the brain.
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Data Stories: Autism and the oxytocin system
Our newest Data Stories video features Sara Freeman, a post-doctoral researcher at the University of California, Davis, who uses the Allen Human Brain Reference Atlas in her study of brain areas that express receptors for the hormone oxytocin.
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BrainScope: Visualizing the human brain
A new open-source tool called BrainScope harnesses powerful data from
the Allen Institute for Brain Science on both the adult and developing
human brains as the basis for an interactive visualization tool.
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Summer Workshop on the Dynamic Brain
August 19-September 3, 2017
The Summer Workshop on the Dynamic Brain is an intensive two-week, interdisciplinary course that aims to give advanced
students in neuroscience, biology, physics, engineering and computer
science a rapid introduction to the current state of understanding of
the neurobiology of sensory processing. Applications for this summer are due April 1, 2017.
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Exploring Frontiers: Connecting Neurodegeneration and Cancer
April 19, 2017
The Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group presents Exploring Frontiers: Connecting Neurodegeneration and Cancer. This symposium held at the Allen Institute will highlight the state of the frontier field investigating the relationship between these two diseases.
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IN THE NEWS
This Giant Neuron Could Explain Where Consciousness Comes From
Seeker, March 16, 2017
How mapping teenagers' brains has helped us understand more about schizophrenia
The Conversation, March 13, 2017
Best of the Best Projects
Engineering News-Record, March 1, 2017
The discovery of a giant neuron could help explain how the brain creates consciousness
Quartz, February 27, 2017
A giant neuron found wrapped around the entire mouse brain
Nature, February 24, 2017
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