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Microsoft Co-Founder Paul Allen Invests $300 Million Into Mapping the Brain
• http://www.popsci.com, By Clay DillowPreviously, the Allen Brain Institute’s mission was to provide brain “atlases” of both human and mouse brains, maps that showed various aspects of how brains work, including how various genes are expressed within the brain. The idea was to create an open-access tool for researchers that would hopefully accelerate the pace of innovation in neurological science.