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by Charles Q Choi

Scientists welcome billionaire's brain project

Email: Charles Q Choi - cqchoi@nasw.org
News from The Scientist 2003, 4(1):20030922-05

22 September 2003

With a $100-million contribution, Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen last week announced the foundation in Seattle of the Allen Institute for Brain Science. The nonprofit institute, which has been in development for 2 years, will immediately be tackling an ambitious project, the Allen Brain Atlas, which seeks in 5 years or less to create a three-dimensional atlas of the mouse brain at the genetic level and to make it publicly available online. The hope is to help establish relationships between genes and behavior.


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