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DeCODE genetics

Type: Company

Name: DeCODE genetics

Nationality: Iceland

Web Address: http://www.decode.com/

Fact Sheet: Fact Sheet for deCODE Genetics Inc

First reported 23 hours ago - Updated 23 hours ago - 1 reports

Celera Corporation

Personalized Medicine - A Strategic Analysis of Industry Trends, Technologies, Participants and Environment - 2013

Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/rdzltq/personalized) has announced the addition of the updated "Personalized Medicine - A Strategic Analysis of Industry Trends, Technologies, Participants and Environment" report to their ... [Published Individual.com - 23 hours ago]

Entities: Personalized Medicine, Environment, Therapeutics, Celera Corporation

First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

Angelina Jolie

5 Services That Will Sequence Your DNA

Angelina Jolie wrote a heartfelt column, "My Medial Choice" for the New York Times Tuesday, detailing her decision to undergo a preventative double mastectomy at age 37. She explained that her choice was based on her abnormally high genetic predisposition ... [Published Mashable - May 15 2013]

Entities: DNA, DeCODE genetics, Angelina Jolie, 23andMe Inc, Breast Cancer

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

DeCODE Genetics Wants To Contact Carriers Of Breast Cancer Gene

Words by Alda KravecPhotos byChairman and president of deCODE genetics Inc., Kári Stefánsson, says he wants to let Icelanders know if they carry the gene for breast cancer.“As an old school doctor, I feel that we have a responsibility to contact these ... [Published Rekjavik Grapevine - May 16 2013]

Entities: Breast Cancer, DeCODE genetics, BRCA2, BRCA1

First reported May 13 2013 - Updated May 13 2013 - 1 reports

DeCODE genetics

No Lifeguard At The Gene Pool?

Iceland’s gene pool sure has been under heavy scrutiny this last month. Thanks to a joke taken a little bit too literally by the international media, a whole bunch of people are probably now under the impression that Icelanders are so related that they ... [Published Rekjavik Grapevine - May 13 2013]

Entities: Gene Pool, Lifeguard, Incest, DeCODE genetics

First reported May 10 2013 - Updated May 10 2013 - 1 reports

It's Not Just An Anti-Incest App

The Book of Icelanders goes mobileWords by Larissa KyzerPhotos byWhat do any two random Icelanders have in common, genetically? If this sounds like the beginning of a bad knock-knock joke (or Jimmy Kimmel sketch), that’s probably because by now you’ve ... [Published Rekjavik Grapevine - May 10 2013]

Entities: Family Tree, Decrypt, Database

First reported May 02 2013 - Updated May 02 2013 - 1 reports

What Big Data can tell you about your genome – and why it matters

Sequencing a single genome these days means analysing half a terabyte of data – very Big Data indeed We’ve had a week of looking at the implications of "Big Data" here at The Irish Times , starting last Saturday and continuing into this week.It’s such ... [Published Irish Times - May 02 2013]

Entities: Genome, Big Data, Genomics, Craig Venter

First reported Apr 30 2013 - Updated Apr 30 2013 - 1 reports

Key Mechanism for a Common Form of Alzheimer's Disease Discovered

A network of genes involved in the inflammatory response in the brain has been discovered by a team of scientists. The findings, published online today in the journal Cell, provide new understanding of key pathways and genes involved in Late Onset Alzheimer's ... [Published MedIndia - Apr 30 2013]

Entities: Alzheimer's Disease, Genomics, Genetics, Anti-Inflammatory, Systems Medicine Inc

First reported Apr 22 2013 - Updated Apr 22 2013 - 1 reports

So Happy Together (JB)

Watch an audio slideshow of the winter in Iceland melting away. moreApril 22 | Book of Icelanders App Garners International AttentionAn app for tracing the family relations of Icelanders, Íslendingaapp, developed by three students at the University of ... [Published Iceland Review Online - Apr 22 2013]

Entities: Iceland, DeCODE genetics, University of Iceland

First reported Apr 19 2013 - Updated Apr 19 2013 - 2 reports

Bump Phones Before You Bump in Bed

You meet someone, there's chemistry, and then come the introductory questions: What's your name? Come here often? Are you my cousin?In Iceland, a country with a population of 320,000 where most everyone is distantly related, inadvertently kissing cousins ... [Published Product Design and Development - Apr 19 2013]

Entities: Iceland, Family Tree, Database, Incest

First reported Apr 18 2013 - Updated Apr 19 2013 - 6 reports

App helps daters avoid incest

The Buzz: The Buzz: Numbers dudeadvertisement | your ad hereYou meet someone, there's chemistry, and then come the introductory questions: What's your name? Come here often? Are you my cousin?In Iceland, a country with a population of 320,000 where most ... [Published HeraldNet - Apr 19 2013]

Entities: Incest, Iceland, Family Tree, Database

First reported Apr 18 2013 - Updated Apr 18 2013 - 8 reports

Not kissing cousins: New app helps Icelanders...

The app was created by three University of Iceland software engineering students for a contest calling for “new creative uses” of the Islendingabok, or Book of Icelanders, an online database of residents and their family trees stretching back 1,200 y ... [Published Pottsdown Mercury - Apr 18 2013]

Entities: Family Tree, Database, DeCODE genetics, Kári Stefánsson, University of Iceland

First reported Dec 10 2012 - Updated Dec 11 2012 - 4 reports

Reuters – Amgen Buys Decode for $415m

U.S. biotechnology group Amgen has agreed to buy unlisted Decode Genetics , a pioneer in hunting down genes linked to disease, for $415 million in cash, writes Reuters. Amgen and Decode said on Monday that the transaction did not require regulatory ... [Published PE Hub News - Dec 11 2012]

Entities: Amgen Inc, Decrypt, Drugs, DeCODE genetics, Human Genome Sciences Inc

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Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/rdzltq/personalized) has announced the addition of the updated "Personalized Medicine - A Strategic Analysis of Industry Trends, Technologies, Participants and Environment" report to their offering...

Personalized Medicine - A Strategic Analysis of Industry Trends, Technologies, Participants and E ... [Published Individual.com - 23 hours ago]

..."Older generations tend to be more interested in learning about their roots," says Skyldleikur's Hlín. "I think this has everything to do with how the information is presented, and that a more youth friendly approach would most certainly spark the interest of the younger generations."

It's Not Just An Anti-Incest App [Published Rekjavik Grapevine - May 10 2013]

"This is a negative quarter," Judson Clark, an analyst with Edward Jones & Co., told Bloomberg News. "The bigger question mark is their sales numbers. It was a pretty broad-based disappointment."

Amgen aims to restock its medicine cabinet [Published Los Angeles Times - May 06 2013]

...Med., President of deCODE Genetics. "That this one mutation increases the risk of many diseases is not surprising. The mutation impacts an important signaling pathway known as Wnt, that contributes to the function of many cell types."

A Mutation Discovered in Iceland that Increases Risks of Osteoporosis and Certain Cancers [Published TickerTech.com - May 05 2013]

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Personalized Medicine - A Strategic Analysis of... [Published Individual.com - 23 hours ago]
DeCODE Genetics Wants To Contact Carriers Of Br... [Published Rekjavik Grapevine - May 16 2013]
5 Services That Will Sequence Your DNA [Published Mashable - May 15 2013]
The Last First Base [Published Bio-IT World - May 13 2013]
No Lifeguard At The Gene Pool? [Published Rekjavik Grapevine - May 13 2013]
It's Not Just An Anti-Incest App [Published Rekjavik Grapevine - May 10 2013]
Taking a LOAD off your mind [Published Drug Discovery News - May 08 2013]
Amgen aims to restock its medicine cabinet [Published Los Angeles Times - May 06 2013]
A Mutation Discovered in Iceland that Increases... [Published TickerTech.com - May 05 2013]
What Big Data can tell you about your genome – ... [Published Irish Times - May 02 2013]
Key Mechanism for a Common Form of Alzheimer's ... [Published MedIndia - Apr 30 2013]
Scientists at Mount Sinai discover a key mechan... [Published EurekAlert! - Apr 25 2013]
Key mechanism for a common form of Alzheimer's ... [Published Medical Xpress - Apr 25 2013]
So Happy Together (JB) [Published Iceland Review Online - Apr 22 2013]
App Helps Avoid Accidental Incest [Published Top Tech News - Apr 20 2013]
Bump Phones Before You Bump in Bed [Published Product Design and Development - Apr 19 2013]
New app urges Icelanders to 'bump the app befor... [Published NDTV - Apr 19 2013]
App helps daters avoid incest [Published HeraldNet - Apr 19 2013]
New App Helps You Avoid Incest [Published Huffington Post - Apr 19 2013]
Avoid incest? There's an app for that [Published Today Online - Apr 19 2013]
Phone app helps Icelanders know their kissing c... [Published Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - Apr 19 2013]
Are we related? In a country of only 320,000, n... [Published New York Daily News - Apr 18 2013]
Kissing cousins? Icelandic app warns if your da... [Published CBC - Apr 18 2013]
Not kissing cousins: New app helps Icelanders... [Published Pottsdown Mercury - Apr 18 2013]
Kissing cousins? App helps Icelanders avoid acc... [Published Minneapolis Star Tribune - Apr 18 2013]
Incest? There's an app for that [Published MSN News - Apr 18 2013]
New Icelandic app warns if your date is a relative [Published CBC - Apr 18 2013]
Kissing cousins? App prevents accidental incest [Published Metronews - Apr 18 2013]
Kissing cousins? In close-knit Iceland, app hel... [Published Observer-Dispatch - Apr 18 2013]
No more kissing cousins: Smartphone app helps I... [Published National Post - Top Stories - Apr 18 2013]

Blogs

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M&A Deal of the Year Nominee: Amgen/Decode [Published The IN VIVO Blog - Dec 17 2012] It's time for the IN VIVO Blog's Fifth Annual Deal of the Year! competition. This year we're once again presenting awards in three categories to highlight the most interesting and creative deal making solutions of the year. The categories are: M&A ...
Deals Of The Week Sings Of An Icelandic Saga An... [Published The IN VIVO Blog - Dec 14 2012] Our knee-jerk reaction to Monday’s announcement that Amgen is buying deCODE Genetics for $415 million in cash was “Say what?” It’s hard to get past the unlikely mix of cultures between Amgen, the most button-down of biotechs, and deCODE, whose irascible ...
The Daily Docket: LifeCare Enters Bankruptcy [Published WSJ.com: Bankruptcy Beat - Dec 11 2012] LifeCare Holdings Inc. and affiliates, a hospital chain backed by the Carlyle Group, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Tuesday. Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review article here . (Daily Bankruptcy Review and DBR Small Cap are daily newsletters ...
Frontrunning: December 11 [Published Zero Hedge - Dec 11 2012] Fed Seen Pumping Up Assets to $4 Trillion in New Buying ( BBG ) China New Loans Trail Forecasts in Sign of Slower Growth ( BBG ) U.S. "fiscal cliff" talks picking up pace ( Reuters ) Insider-Trading Probe Widens ( WSJ ) U.K.'s Top Banker Sees Currency ...
Amgen buying deCODE Genetics for $415 million [Published Business - cleveland.com - Dec 10 2012] Amgen, the world's largest biotech company by revenue, and deCODE, based in Reykjavik, Iceland, announced the all-cash deal Monday. ...

Press Releases

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Amgen to Acquire deCODE Genetics, a Global Lead... [Published Financial Services - Dec 10 2012]