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Lab Notes

Allen Institute

The 21st century is the century of biology. Discoveries made in the lab today will shape the cures of tomorrow. On Lab Notes, we"re pulling back the curtain on the human stories behind headline-grabbing scientific studies and breakthroughs. Lab Notes is a production of the Allen Institute.

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Lab Notes | Bridging Science Fiction and Reality:...

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2025/10/20

Global science lies at the edge of a new age of discovery thanks to advances in synthetic biology driving innovations that could reshape human health. Synthetic biology involves redesigning organisms at a cellular level to grant them new abilities. It is, at first blush, the stuff of science fiction; but in fact, it is a reality here in Seattle. In this episode of Lab Notes, we explore the promise and potential of this exciting field with some of the leading minds spearheading efforts ...

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Lab Notes | The neuroscience of addiction and...

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2025/09/04

Science is supporting the battle against addiction and substance use disorder. Neuroscientists around the world are working to better understand the mechanisms of addictive drug use and how to alleviate the debilitating withdrawal symptoms that cause people to suffer. In this episode of Lab Notes, we meet two social service providers who work directly with people in treatment and recovery on the complex nature of of substance use disorder and a leading neuroscientist working to unravel its my...

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RERELEASE – Lab Notes | Why don’t we understand the...

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2025/08/18

This episode originally aired on March 14, 2022. Why is the brain harder to understand than other organs? What can we learn about our brains from studying octopus arms? Is the human brain even capable of understanding itself? We are revisiting a past episode about the challenges still facing scientists as they work to better understand our brains. Tune in to learn how far we've come, and how far we have to go. Listen on our site or wherever you find podcasts. Behind every science headline, th...

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Lab Notes | The Digital Brain : Unlocking the Mind's...

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2025/07/16

How does the brain work? Scientists are closer to answering this enigma with the largest wiring diagram and functional map of a mammalian brain to date. In April 2025, the Allen Institute, as part of a global team, unveiled what was once thought impossible: a high-resolution functional map of a cubic millimeter of brain, revealing both form and function. In this Lab Notes episode, the Allen Institute’s Clay Reid, M.D., Ph.D., Nuno da Costa, Ph.D., and Forrest Colman, Ph.D., and scientific col...

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12:48

Cells in Space!

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2024/05/29

Reaching new heights, stem cells from the Allen Institute for Cell Science were flown into space for the first time ever. In 2023, astronauts from Axiom Space studied genetically engineered cells, derived from human skin cells, in microgravity aboard the International Space Station. Axiom Space’s astronaut Peggy A. Whitson and Chief Scientist, Dr. Lucie Low; along with Professor Arun Sharma from Cedars-Sinai share the experience and science behind the out-of-this-world mission. Behind e...

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21:22

The mystery of long COVID

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2023/08/16

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23:50

Cracking the code of addiction

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2022/10/12

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21:38

Bees suffer from social isolation too

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2022/08/24

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21:02

Building a consciousness meter with Christof Koch

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2022/05/26

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20:30

Why don't we understand the brain?

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2022/03/14

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19:50

Fire Inside: The quest to understand & prevent...

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2021/05/17

In the early '80s, Linda Sloate was a 30-year old mom raising three little kids when she became one of an estimated 20 million people worldwide living with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). It has been a 40-year struggle filled with dozens of treatments and surgeries. Today there is new hope for patients as researchers have come together for a collaborative project to uncover how RA begins – and how to stop it in its tracks.Behind every science headline, there is a human story. Hear about the

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20:30

The novelist and the scientist

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2021/03/01

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16:25

Starved but unable to eat: Life with Crohn's

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2020/12/22

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SCANning for coronavirus

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2020/09/22

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24:50

Taming the Beast

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2020/08/04

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A face mask that detects coronavirus

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2020/04/27

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