Researchers say they’ve accomplished a feat that was said to be impossible 46 years ago: mapping the cells in a cubic millimeter of brain tissue and tracing their activity. The… Read More
The Seattle Hub for Synthetic Biology is receiving a $10 million grant to support the training of new scientists and the launch of biotech startups pursuing therapies for human diseases.… Read More
Julie Harris has been appointed vice president of The Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group at the Seattle-based Allen Institute. Harris previously spent nearly 10 years at the Allen Institute for… Read More
There’s no question that artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming more intelligent, thanks to software platforms including ChatGPT, Google Gemini and Grok. But does that mean AI agents will one day… Read More
Christian Luscher has spent years trying to figure out why people chase a fix that comes at such a high cost. Luscher, a neuroscientist at the University of Geneva, explained… Read More
The Allen Institute’s OpenScope program lets scientists study the weird workings of the brain — for instance, how magic mushrooms work their psychedelic magic on individual neurons, how memories of the past… Read More
Researchers opened the doors Monday to the new Seattle Hub for Synthetic Biology, a collaboration between the Allen Institute, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and the University of Washington. The hub combines “academic creativity with… Read More
Neuroscientists have unveiled their most comprehensive and detailed map of cell types across the entire mouse brain, delivering the latest results of a six-year-long scientific effort in which Seattle’s Allen… Read More
The Allen Institute, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and the University of Washington have launched a collaboration called the Seattle Hub for Synthetic Biology, with the goal of using genetically modified… Read More
The Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group, a division of the Seattle-based Allen Institute, is launching a research center in New York to focus on interactions between the nervous system and… Read More
Twenty years after Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen created the bioscience research center that bears his name, Seattle’s Allen Institute is still pushing out into new frontiers. But this weekend, the… Read More
Space: The final frontier … for stem cells? Seattle’s Allen Institute for Cell Science says cells from its collection are going into space for the first time on a private… Read More
— Salesforce-backed cybersecurity startup Oleria hired Siva Garudayagari as its chief technology officer. Garudayagari has more than 20 years of enterprise software experience. He worked in various roles at Microsoft,… Read More
Our cells are built from smaller structures that specialize in the key tasks of life, from cell division to cellular trash collection. And how those smaller parts fit together in… Read More
— The Allen Institute appointed Chris Beaudoin as its new chief operations officer. Beaudoin was previously chief operating officer at Swedish, a Seattle-area healthcare system affiliated with Providence. Prior to… Read More
Seattle’s Allen Institute will spearhead a project to create an atlas of the cells in the human brain as part of $173 million in new funding from the U.S. National… Read More
The Allen Institute for Immunology unveiled a new interactive platform on Wednesday to showcase the human immune system, the Human Immune System Explorer. Built in partnership with Google, the explorer… Read More
The legacy of the late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen lives on at some of Seattle’s most innovative institutions. This week GeekWire profiled the AI2 incubator, a branch of the Allen… Read More
Rui Costa thinks a lot about how to do team science effectively. Since last December, the neuroscientist has served as CEO and president of an organization devoted to teamwork and… Read More
The Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group, a division of Seattle’s Allen Institute, has announced a new crop of 11 award-winning projects in biology and medicine. The awards aim to support early-stage projects… Read More
— Zillow Group named Jenny Arden as the Seattle-based real estate company’s first chief design officer. She was most recently vice president of digital design at Nike. A Google alum,… Read More
Seattle’s Allen Institute has launched a new division called The Allen Institute for Neural Dynamics, which will explore how the brain executes complex actions like decision making, learning and memory.… Read More
Could magic mushrooms hold the key that unlocks the secrets of consciousness? Well, maybe not the only key. But Allen Institute neuroscientist Christof Koch says that hallucinogenic drugs such as… Read More
Scientists have released a trove of research comparing, cell by cell, a key region of the brains of humans, monkeys and mice. Scientists at Seattle’s Allen Institute had a central… Read More
— Amy Nelson is getting back into co-working. The founder and former CEO of The Riveter announced Tuesday that she is the president of SaksWorks, a new partnership between Saks… Read More
Neuroscientists from Seattle’s Allen Institute and other research institutions have wrapped up a five-year, multimillion-dollar project with the release of a high-resolution 3-D map showing the connections between 200,000 cells… Read More
Human stem cell scientists have long dreamed of repairing damaged hearts, but have been stymied by research showing that the cells yield irregular heartbeats in laboratory animals. A new genetic engineering… Read More
You can lead a virtual robot to a refrigerator, but you can’t make it pull out a drink. This is the problem that Seattle’s Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, also… Read More
After nearly two decades helping lead the Allen Institute, CEO and President Allan Jones will step down later this year. Jones was the founding CEO of the Seattle-based Allen Institute,… Read More
A $40.5 million collaborative research center headquartered at Seattle’s Allen Institute aims to create high-resolution maps of brains ravaged by Alzheimer’s disease, to trace new paths to early diagnosis and… Read More
