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Our cell line of the week is alpha tubulin! 🧫 Our high quality stem cell lines and plasmids are available for just the cost of shipping to reduce the barriers to scientific discovery. 📦 Distributed by Coriell Institute for Medical Research and Addgene. #OpenScience #CellLineOfTheWeek #CellScience

"In 1979 the Nobel prize-winning biologist Francis Crick marvelled at the human brain’s capacity to explore itself. Yet, even as he celebrated its powers of investigation, he harboured doubts about their reach. It would be “impossible”, he said, to construct a wiring diagram for even a single cubic millimetre of brain tissue, so dense and labyrinthine was its complexity. He might have underestimated human ingenuity." Thank you to Rhys Blakely for featuring the MICrONs project in The Times! Check out Blakely's excellent overview of the most complete map yet of the brain's wiring and activity: https://lnkd.in/ee4Nr6Qy

Undergraduate educators - you have one month to register for the Open Science in Undergraduate Education Symposium at the Allen Institute on June 16-18. Register by May 16 to learn best practices, network with peers, and enjoy summer in Seattle with us! https://lnkd.in/gfgZCTbi

In the latest Science Museum Group blog post, Science Director Roger Highfield reports on the latest milestone in what many have called the most complicated neuroscience experiment ever.

Have you ever used a genetic tool and wondered what transcriptomic cell types it actually labels in the brain? Now is your chance to help solve this problem, through our MapMySections data challenge! 🧠📈 Submit your algorithm by May 30.

Happy #WorldArtDay! 🎨 With creativity as a core value, it's no surprise that we have talented artists in our ranks! Research associate and illustrator Nathaly Lerma recently designed the cover art for the Lost Women of Science Initiative podcast's series on Evangelina Rodríguez Perozo. See the art and get to know this important figure in medical history: https://lnkd.in/gVEq9u8p

"I chose this path because I believe science has the power not just to understand the brain, but to heal and restore lives." - Jessica Oparebea Last year, Jessica joined students from across the African continent at TReND-CaMinA - a computational neuroscience workshop offered by TReND in Africa. Under the guidance of Saskia de Vries and Michael Buice, she gained hands-on experience in neurobiology and data analysis. With renewed passion and confidence, Jessica plans on inspiring others by following her dreams and mentoring others. Dive deeper into Jessica's journey and her upcoming webinar: https://lnkd.in/gEkHJaNS

Researchers from the Allen Institute, Baylor College of Medicine and Princeton University map part of the mouse brain in detail. #Neuroscience

One small square of brain tissue, one giant leap for neuroscience 🧠✨ Thank you to Mireya Garcia and FOX 13 Seattle for chatting brains with us!

If you show a mouse a movie, you may just learn a lot about the visual cortex! Thank you to Karissa Waddick for sharing our recent publication of the most complete functional map of an animal brain yet in USA TODAY. Read the article: https://lnkd.in/gTqZGRUT