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Preservation, Sustainability & Collaboration: The New Allen Institute HQ Opens

Dec 1, 2015

Curbed Seattle - This Friday, The Allen Institute officially opens it's new six-story, 270,000-square-foot headquarters at 615 Westlake Ave. N.

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Paul Allen’s Latest Surprising Revelation About The Human Brain

Nov 16, 2015

Forbes - Scientists at the Seattle-based Allen Institute for Brain Science—backed by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen—have spent more than a decade...

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Thought process: Building an artificial brain

Sep 30, 2015

The Washington Post - Paul Allen has been waiting for the emergence of intelligent machines for a very long time.

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Connectomes make the map

Sep 30, 2015

Nature - Working at a variety of scales and with disparate organisms and technologies, researchers are mapping how parts of the brain connect.

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What is consciousness?

Sep 10, 2015

The Economist (interview with Christof Koch, Ph.D.) - Understanding what consciousness is, and why and how it evolved, is perhaps the greatest mystery...

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How Brain Science Explains the Way We See #TheDress

Mar 3, 2015

HuffPost - Upon the electronic distribution of a picture of nothing more than a dress, we saw the birth of the stalwart White-and-golders and the...

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Rick Horwitz: Words do not suffice

Mar 2, 2015

Horwitz is leading the Allen Institute for Cell Science in its quest to comprehend the cell.

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Stem cells: disease models that show and tell

Jan 29, 2015

Nature - The cells looked beautiful—and that was bad news, recalls Clive Svendsen, a stem cell researcher and neurobiologist at Cedars-Sinai Medical...

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Horwitz Interview Zooms in on Allen Cell Institute

Jan 9, 2015

One of the most exciting developments in the biomedical sciences in 2014 was the announcement of the new Allen Institute for Cell Science.

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10 people who mattered this year

Dec 17, 2014

As head of a new US$100-million venture funded by philanthropist Paul Allen, Rick Horwitz must push cell biology to a new frontier.

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