News tagged with decode genetics


Key mechanism for a common form of Alzheimer's disease discovered

Scientists from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, in collaboration with researchers from Icelandic Heart Association, Sage Bionetworks, and other institutions, have discovered that a network of genes involved in ...

Alzheimer's disease & dementia created Apr 25, 2013 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Amgen buying deCODE Genetics for $415 million

Biotech pioneer Amgen Inc., in a bid for a big edge in using people's genetic information to find better ways to attack diseases, is buying human genetics research and analytics leader deCODE Genetics for $415 million.

Genetics created Dec 10, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Most mutations come from dad

Humans inherit more than three times as many mutations from their fathers as from their mothers, and mutation rates increase with the father's age but not the mother's, researchers have found in the largest study of human ...

Genetics created Aug 24, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Children of older men have more gene abnormalities: study

Do older fathers doom their children to genetic disease?

Genetics created Aug 22, 2012 | popularity 2.6 / 5 (7) | comments 2

'Natural' protection against Alzheimer’s disease

deCODE Genetics, together with their colleagues from the pharmaceutical company Genentech, reported today in the journal Nature the discovery of a variant of the amyloid precursor protein (APP) gene that confers protection agains ...

Alzheimer's disease & dementia created Jul 11, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Patients see benefits and risks to direct-to-consumer genetics tests

Patients see potential benefits from direct-to-consumer genetic testing, but are also concerned about how test results will be used, and generally are unwilling to pay more than $10 or $20 for them, according to focus groups ...

Genetics created May 10, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers discover genetic risk factor for skin, prostate and brain cancers

Scientists at deCODE Genetics and academic collaborators from Iceland, The Netherlands, Spain, Denmark, Germany, Sweden, the USA, the UK and Romania today report the discovery of a variant in the sequence of the human genome ...

Genetics created Sep 25, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0