Looking back at 2014

Between cover articles in Nature, major grant awards, dynamic community engagement and important strides toward understanding the brain, 2014 has been a banner year for the Allen Institute for Brain Science.

Team science at the Allen Institute: synapse biology

How do the individual cells in our brains communicate? This seemingly simple question is in fact enormously complex.

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Case Studies: A new way to see our science

Our data is big, and beautiful, so scientists get creative to make quantifiable observations about the brain.

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Take a tour of our single cell molecular profiling program

Follow this virtual journey to see how scientists at the Allen Institute for Brain Science identify and characterize individual neurons.

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