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Billionaire Paul Allen Donates $100 Million To Fund A ‘Manhattan Project’ For Human Disease

Dec 9, 2014

Paul Allen, the Microsoft cofounder turned billionaire philanthropist, will donate $100 million to create a research center tasked with investigating...

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Biologists Get $100 Million From Billionaire Paul Allen To Investigate Cells

Dec 8, 2014

With a gift of $100 million from billionaire philanthropist Paul G. Allen, scientists will embark on an effort to understand how cells work and how...

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Microsoft billionaire takes on cell biology

Dec 8, 2014

Billionaire businessman and philanthropist Paul Allen plans to pump US$100 million into investigating the most basic unit of life — the cell.

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Billionaire’s New Science Institute Plans “Google Maps” View of Cells

Dec 8, 2014

We have not been seeing cells as they really are, says Rick Horwitz, and it is time for that to change.

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Billionaire Paul Allen donates $100m to new ‘industrial scale’ effort to understand human cells

Dec 8, 2014

Microsoft co-founder Paul G. Allen is donating $100 million of his fortune to launch what he calls an “industrial-scale” effort to understand the...

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Allen gives $100 million for new Seattle institute to unravel cells

Dec 8, 2014

Paul Allen’s new cell-science institute will share more than a building with the brain-research center the Microsoft mogul established in his...

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Paul Allen gives $100M to create new Allen Institute for Cell Science

Dec 8, 2014

Paul Allen is again dolling out a huge chunk of money to fuel scientific research.

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Microsoft mogul to create new cell science center

Dec 8, 2014

Science - Eleven years after he established an institute dedicated to mapping the brain, Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen is announcing a sequel: the...

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Building the Mouse Brain Mega Map

Nov 25, 2014

Discover Magazine - Scientists imaged more than 1,700 mouse brains to build the most comprehensive mammalian brain map yet.

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A Genetic Map Hints At What Makes A Brain Human

Nov 16, 2014

NPR - Patterns of gene expression in human and mouse brains suggest that cells known as glial cells may have helped us evolve brains that can acquire...

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