ALLEN INSTITUTE FOR CELL SCIENCE

The cell is the fundamental unit of life. As humans, our lives begin as a single cell, growing to 50 trillion cells in adulthood. Each of these cells is a microcosm of complex, living machinery. Recent advances have yielded remarkable insights into how many of the individual pieces of cellular machinery function; but understanding how they work together to produce a living cell—and how those cells interact to form living organisms—requires an entirely different approach. Launched with a c... ontribution from Paul G. Allen in 2014, the Allen Institute for Cell Science will serve as a catalyzing force to integrate diverse technologies and approaches at a large scale in order to study the cell as an integrated system—something that traditional academic labs cannot do. Their inaugural project, the Allen Cell Observatory, will produce novel visual, dynamic, predictive models of the cell that will accelerate cell biology and biomedical research.More