Jun 30, 2008 | NEWS
Reykjavik, ICELAND, June 30, 2008 ― At its annual R&D event being held today in New York, deCODE genetics (Nasdaq:DCGN) will provide an update on progress in all aspects of its business, including the commercial potential and marketing rollout for its growing...
May 18, 2008 | NEWS
Discoveries help to detail how some fair coloring traits contribute to risk of skin cancer; findings will be integrated into the deCODEme™ service Reykjavik, ICELAND, May 18, 2008 – In two papers published today, deCODE scientists and academic colleagues from Europe...
Apr 29, 2008 | NEWS
Findings underscore deCODE’s ability to identify genetic risk factors in the most complex traits, and have been integrated into the deCODEme™ service Reykjavik, ICELAND, April 29, 2008 – In a paper published today in the New England Journal of Medicine, a team of...
Apr 25, 2008 | NEWS
Reykjavik, ICELAND, April 25, 2008 – deCODE genetics (Nasdaq:DCGN) today expressed its enthusiastic support for the Genetic Information Non-discrimination Act (GINA), a bill that, many years in the making, is now moving swiftly through Congress and is expected to be...
Apr 6, 2008 | NEWS
April 6, 2008 – Scientists at deCODE genetics have identified 27 regions in the human genome that affect adult height. These variants, which are published today in the online edition of Nature Genetics, together explain an estimated 4% percent of the normal population...
Apr 2, 2008 | NEWS
Reykjavik, ICELAND, April 02, 2008 – Cigarette smoking is a major public health problem that contributes to millions of deaths around the world each year. While the health risks of smoking are well known, relatively little is known about why some people are...