When two homozygous plant lines with different characteristics are crossed, the resulting offspring are often more robust and productive than their parents. This phenomenon is called heterosis. It can ...

Artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming medicine’s most powerful microscope, revealing patterns in human DNA that were ...

REYKJAVIK, Iceland, Jan. 29, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Scientists at deCODE genetics, a subsidiary of Amgen, and their collaborators from Iceland, Denmark, and the USA published a study today in Nature ...

Long after his death, Hans Jonathan is something of a celebrity in Iceland, where he is thought to have been the first black person. But in Denmark, his extraordinary story is widely ignored. By ...

Amgen subsidiary deCODE Genetics has identified new risk factors and genes associated with clonal hematopoiesis, a precursor state to blood cancer. In the results of a study published Nov. 6 in Nature ...

Researchers at the Icelandic biotechnology company DeCode Genetics Incorporated said they found a gene that can double the risk of type 2 diabetes, a disease that affects at least 171 million people ...

Migraine sufferers know two things very well: the attacks are awful (sometimes disabling) and difficult to treat. Migraine is among the most common chronic pain disorders worldwide, with up to 20% of ...

Amgen, the world's largest biotech company by revenue, and deCODE, based in Reykjavik, Iceland, announced the all-cash deal Monday. DeCODE, founded in 1996, has discovered genetic risk factors for ...

NEW YORK (CBS.MW) -- Shares of DeCode Genetics rose nearly 25 percent Tuesday after the company said it expanded a genetic research partnership with Switzerland's Roche AG. Financial terms weren't ...

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — 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 ...