Whether they use the Web or Gnutella, SightSound users download an encrypted, compressed file, and then pay for a license with which they can decode it into a viewable movie.

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Since then DeCode has used them to discover genes involved in heart disease, diabetes and breast cancer.

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And it was this location that led to his first contacts with DeCode Genetics founder Kari Stefansson , then a professor at Harvard University.

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