With its collaborators Genentech, Icelandic company DeCode Genetics has found a rare gene variant that marks protection against both Alzheimer's disease and general cognitive decline. This discovery ...
In a bid to bolster its drug discovery efforts, the biotechnology giant Amgen said Monday that it would pay $415 million to acquire deCODE Genetics, a gene-hunting business known for its ...
The two companies also announced on Tuesday that they would now be concentrating their resources on just four diseases. Reykjavik-based deCODE is searching for disease-gene links by analysing ...
Archaeologists in Norway have confirmed that an ancient set of human remains known as the Well Man were intended to make the locals unwell. By Franz Lidz Long after his death, Hans Jonathan is ...