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How does the brain work? Scientists are closer to the answer with the largest wiring diagram and functional map of a mammalian brain to date. 🧵

The basal ganglia is essential for motor control, learning, emotion and cognition, yet how cell types relate to their organization in circuits. A new @NatureNeuro article shares new insights: go.nature.com/4wzjajF

Let us help you with your research! All of our neural dynamics tools, software, protocols, datasets, and even hardware plans are available in one convenient place. Check it out and let us know what you'd like to see next: allenneuraldynamics.org/tools

Troponin I (slow skeletal) is our #CellLineOfTheWeek! ❤️🔬 Our human stem cell lines & plasmids are openly available to reduce the barriers to scientific discovery. 🧫🚀 📦 Distributed by @Coriell_Science & @Addgene #OpenScience

Do we experience the same red? Meritorious Investigator Christof Koch shares in @popsci why seeing color is a subjective experience: alleninstitute.org/podcast/lab-no…

🏆 Award-winning storytelling for world-changing science. @PRSA has given a Bronze Anvil Award to our Editorial & Media Team for their campaign sharing last year's historic MICrONS data release. 🔬 Visualizations courtesy of our EM team and @quorumetrix

Fentanyl is 100x stronger than morphine and it's reshaping the public health landscape. Dive into the neuroscience of addiction and the human stories behind the crisis: alleninstitute.org/news/lab-notes…

On this day in 2015, we launched the Allen Cell Types Database! This first-of-its-kind database began with the location, electrical activity and shape of more than 240 neurons. Today it has 2333 neurons and counting. See the data for yourself: celltypes.brain-map.org

This vibrant video by our Immunology team shows how similar/different millions of cells are to one another. Each tiny dot represents a single cell; and their color, the cell type: cyan for intestinal cells, red for T cells, white for liver cells, orange for smooth muscle cells.

“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” @NIH BRAIN Initiative Director John Ngai argues that the future of neuroscience depends on integration across data types, species, technologies, and communities. 🔗 cell.com/neuron/fulltex…

Science for all.

Check out the MICrONS Explorer - a virtual observatory of the cortex: microns-explorer.org This #OpenScience data portal includes #ElectronMicroscopy based reconstructions of cortical circuitry from mouse visual cortex.

The BRAIN Initiative Conference is now accepting symposia submissions! Proposals in these areas are encouraged: ⚙️ Brain Tools & Technologies ⚡️From Cells to Behavior 🤝 Connectivity Across Scales 💽 Secondary Analysis & Data Re-Use Submit by June 7: bit.ly/4uutfwC

Peroxisomal membrane protein is our #CellLineOfTheWeek! 🧫 Our hiPSC lines and plasmids are openly available to accelerate discovery. 📦 🛒 Browse our stem cell lines at @Coriell_Science and plasmids at @Addgene. #OpenScience

.@DenisTurcu thought he had his future mapped out: major in math and physics, a Ph.D. in theoretical physics, academia. Then a computational neuroscience class changed everything. Now a Shanahan Fellow, he uses math to build models inspired by the brain: alleninstitute.org/news/developin…

It's not just what you say, but how you say it. Meet our new custom typeface, built to make complex science clear and welcoming.

A departure from the predictable blues, grays, and whites of our industry, our new palette represents energy and excitement with colors directly inspired by our scientific imagery.

Rather than taking a logo-centric approach, Neville Brody built a visual grammar for the Allen Institute and let the logo follow. f-st.co/qKMPFcd

Rather than taking a logo-centric approach, Neville Brody built a visual grammar for the Allen Institute and let the logo follow. f-st.co/n7n64qu

@StuartMaudsley @SemanticScholar Thank you for the shoutout! This incredible tool was developed by our friends at @allen_ai.

...here's the latest update on my page at @SemanticScholar. Semantic Scholar, from @AllenInstitute, is an excellent resource for alternate data retrieval that I use on a daily basis - you should give it a go! semanticscholar.org/author/Stuart-…

@amyneurons What a beautiful way to bring open science to life!

Interactive visualization of calcium imaging for 100 neurons from the microns dataset. Your neurons are doing this when you watch thevid! Check it out (WIP): amyleesterling.github.io/inner_cosmos/a… Data from microns-explorer.org @AllenInstitute