Whole, healthy human brain data is now available on the Allen Brain Cell Atlas! 🧠💻 This dataset includes more than three million cells sampled from dissections from three adult donors. Samples were assayed using single-nucleus RNA sequencing and the resulting cells were clustered and categorized by neurotransmitter type, region, anatomical division, sex, and subject. The new dataset includes non-neuronal and neuronal plots. Access the neuronal data: https://lnkd.in/gzgifTRu Access the nonneuronal data: https://lnkd.in/gMdRtvPD This research is funded by The National Institutes of Health Brain Research Through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative – a partnership of 10 Institutes and Centers with the common goal of developing innovative neurotechnologies. #studyBRAIN
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We use our singular approach to uncover the mysteries of the human brain & share our resources with the world.
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Our mission at the Allen Institute for Brain Science is to accelerate the understanding of how the brain works in health and disease. Using a big science, team science, open science approach, we generate useful public resources, drive technological and analytical advances, and discover fundamental brain properties through integration of experiments, modeling and theory.
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- 2003
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Check out this beautiful video by Brad Krajina, PhD featuring our MICrONS dataset!
Chemical Engineer. Scientific Visualizer. I build bespoke scientific visualizations to help biotech companies, research institutions, and scientists tell their stories. Owner @ BK SciViz
Flying through 3D brain cell electron microscopy data in Unreal Engine with an Xbox controller in real-time: featuring open data from the IARPA MICrONS dataset. The video shows a selection of 250 mouse neurons, originally reconstructed in 3D from electron microscopy data by a large team of researchers from the MICrONS consortium. The rendering is a real-time capture of a 3D scene I set up in the game engine Unreal, using the 3D reconstruction data that has been generously made publicly available by the MICrONS consortium: https://lnkd.in/gDP5rpKv This cortical cubic millimeter data set spans a section of a mouse brain containing about 200,000 cells— so this 250-cell random subset represents less than 1% of the cell density in the original tissue. Each cell mesh is richly detailed, and even this sparse selection of cells is densely packed with data. The dataset has been a great resource for me to stress-test features in Unreal Engine for visualizing dense scientific spatial data. Unreal Engine recently released a new system for handling 3D scenes with dense geometry: Nanite. The idea behind Nanite is for geometry to automatically adapt in detail depending on how far it is from viewer, representing only the amount of detail that is actually perceptible from a given distance. As you get close, the representation becomes more detailed, and as you move away, it is simplified, freeing up resources for more critical parts of the scene. In this scene shown here, this method gives at least a 10-fold improvement in performance, transforming something that is barely workable to a fluid experience. These rendering approaches were originally developed for video games, which are constantly facing demands for increasing depth, scale, and immersion. But we’re facing similar challenges in scientific visualization: an explosion of depth and scale of scientific data and a need to find new ways to represent and engage with that data to make sense of it. ---------------------- References and acknowledgements: The data used for this visualization were produced by a consortium of labs led by members of the Allen Institute for Brain Science, Princeton University, and Baylor College of Medicine (the MICrONS Consortium). I was not involved in studies that generated the data. The dataset is described in the following publication: MICrONs Consortium, J. Alexander Bae, Chi Zhang, et al. Functional connectomics spanning multiple areas of mouse visual cortex. bioRxiv 2021.07.28.454025; doi: 10.1101/2021.07.28.454025 More information about the study, the Microns program, and these data can be found at: https://lnkd.in/gDP5rpKv This post was not sponsored or endorsed by the MICrONS Consortium, or any of its affiliated institutions or researchers.
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Why do placebos work? In a study published today in Nature, researchers share the discovery a brain circuit involved in the placebo effect. The findings could lead to new targets for pain relief, including using the body’s own control mechanisms. The research was a collaboration between University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Stanford University, Harvard Medical School, Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), Columbia University, and Hongkui Zeng (Allen Institute for Brain Science). Dive deeper into the study: https://lnkd.in/gU4AMFAR Nature Portfolio
How do placebos ease pain? Mouse brain study offers clues
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NEW VIDEO | Human and Non-Human Primate Brain Atlases and Tools Explore the first draft of a brain-wide cell atlas of the adult human brain and learn about the next phase of #BICAN cell atlasing efforts focused on human and non-human primate model organisms. Watch: https://lnkd.in/gqTddT2r All BICAN webinar recordings: https://lnkd.in/gGVfbgUU #studyBRAIN
Human and Non-Human Primate Brain Atlases and Tools - Webinar (June 11th, 2024)
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On this day in 2008, researchers at the Allen Institute for Brain Science published the Allen Spinal Cord Atlas, the world’s first genome-wide map of gene expression in the mouse spinal cord. The atlas aimed to fill a gap in the scientific community focused on understanding spinal cord diseases and injuries. 🔓🧠 Explore the atlas at https://lnkd.in/gjdeFtFR
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What makes the human brain unique? Most diseases of the human brain are only seen in humans. By understanding what makes the human brain different, we can understand more about these unique diseases. #studyBRAIN
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Save time mapping gene expression data to reference taxonomies with MapMyCells. Check out our tutorial on how to take full advantage of this tool: https://lnkd.in/dAvsymHK #studyBRAIN
MapMyCells | Tutorial
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Examine multimodal data from thousands of cells across three mammalian species with the Cell Type Knowledge Explorer, an open science resource developed with BICCN and supported by the BRAIN Initiative Alliance. Explore it at: https://lnkd.in/eNTRJcXj #BICCN #studyBRAIN
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