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Credit: Dr. Rui Costa, President and CEO of The Allen Institute, presenting at Neuroscience 2024.

New Scale Technologies unveiled its new Modular Insertion System at this year’s Neuroscience 2024 in Chicago this month. Overall, the Neuroscience community is challenged by a 40% cut to the NIH BRAIN initiative, which likely impacted attendance at bit, but certainly didn’t show in interest and enthusiasm for the research and tools available to advance it.

Rui M. Costa, the President and CEO of The Allen Institute, presented the keynote address. Dr. Costa shared the Allen Institute’s mission to map the brain, understand how it’s interconnected, and how disease impacts brain function; all with a goal of completing research that is open source and shared with the entire world.

The Allen Institute for Neural Dynamics has 950 employees on staff and remains New Scale’s largest neuroscience customer. Dr. Costa shared the news of the launch of New Scale’s Modular Insertion System, now commercially available to researchers worldwide.

 

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An MIS configuration shown with 5-probe modules, 2 laser module, and 1 microscope module.

With the introduction of tools like this, research is accelerating, despite budget challenges:

  • 50 petabytes of data were collected just within the past year
  • For one research task alone, they have inserted 453 probes and recorded from >70,000 neurons

The new Modular Insertion System (MIS) supports up to 25 probes, including laser and microscope modules, allowing for more data collection in less time. This new system builds on the capabilities of the MPM Multi-Probe Micromanipulator System, which was also demonstrated by Neuropixels/IMEC, Cambridge Neurotech, and NeuroNexus.

We are proud to partner with the Allen Institute and leading companies like these, to support researchers worldwide in their pursuit of understanding of brain circuitry and new ways of treating diseases and disorders.

Learn more about the New Scale MIS