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A neuron’s months-long journey through the many sterile-gloved hands that make up a science pipeline

Can we understand our own brains? We have a long way to go, neuroscientists say.

Less than 10% of neurons in the mouse visual system behave the way scientists thought most such cells work to perceive the outside world. What the other 90% are doing is far from clear.

Endorphins and other neuropeptides vary widely between brain cell types and point to new possible targets for psychiatric drugs, study finds

Erich Jarvis studies how vocal learning evolves. Allen Institute resources are helping him connect the dots from bird song to human speech. 

A fortuitous event led to an early diagnosis. Ten years later, her cancer journey is not over.

A method developed to make more realistic computer graphics now forms the backbone of new 3D cell visualization tool

Scientists at a pharmaceutical company want to know how the drug they developed for weight management affects the brain. Allen Institute resources are helping them figure it out.

Study linking behaviors with cells in an ancient section of the brain also pinpointed a neuron tied to social fear